World-famous poet and litterateur of Bengal who got Nobel Prize on his work Gitanjali, in the Kaliyuga's year 5014 ( 1913 A.D. ), Ravindranath Tagore ( Thakur ) had been an epoch maker in Bengali literature.
His father Sri Devendranath Thakur was a famous and honoured Brahma-samajist. Born in a well-cultured family accomplished with rich interest in literature, Ravindranath Tagore brought effected an unprecedented and excellent development of the Bengali literature. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Nobel laureate for literature (1913), was one of modern India's greatest poets and the composer of independent India's national anthem.
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