prime minister Narendra Modi bows to Gurudev tagore on his 161st jayanti About Rabindra Nath Tagore

May 9, 2022

According to the Bengali calendar, the Tagore Jayanti falls on the 25th day of the Boishakh month.
This year, the Jayanti will be celebrated across the Bengali community in India and Bangladesh on May 9
Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta on May 7, 1861. He was also referred to as ‘Gurudev’, ‘Kabiguru’, and ‘Biswakabi’.
Rabindranath was an exceptional literary figure and a renowned polymath who singlehandedly reshaped the region’s literature and music.
In 1913 Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work on Gitanjali.
He was the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize .
In 1915 Tagore was awarded knighthood by the British King George V. In 1919, following the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre he renounced his Knighthood.
Besides all his literary achievements he was also a philosopher and educationist who in 1921 established the Vishwa-Bharati University, a university that challenged conventional education.
Rabindranath Tagore was a good friend of Mahatma Gandhi and is said to have given him the title of Mahatma.
He not only gave the national anthems for two countries, India and Bangladesh, but also inspired a Ceylonese student of his, to pen and compose the national anthem of Sri Lanka