Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter—of the Bengal Renaissance, born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, authored national anthems for India and Bangladesh, and founded Visva-Bharati University. In 1913, he became the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature for his profoundly sensitive poetry in Gitanjali.