Rabindranath tagore nobel prize

Rabindranath Tagore became first non-European to win Nobel Prize in Literature on this day in 1913, as recalled by the Committee. Tagore continues to be a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on November 13, 1913, “because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.’ In the introduction of the same book, WB Yeats wrote, “We write long books where no page perhaps has any quality to make writing a pleasure, being confident in some general design, just as we fight and make money and fill our heads with politics - all dull things in the doing - while Mr Tagore, like the Indian civilization itself, has been content to discover the soul and surrender himself to its spontaneity.” Read - Rabindranath Tagore’s life The poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher and musician from Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861, to Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi in Calcutta. While Tagore’s mother had died only when he was a child, his father was always on the roads. Therefore, he was raised mainly by servants. Rabindranath Tagore’s eldest brother, Dwijendranath was a philosopher and poet. His other brothers Satyendranath and Jyotirindranath were first Indian in Civil Service and a musician, composer respectively. Meanwhile, Swarnakumari, his sister was a novelis...

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances. They build their houses with sand, and they play with empty shells. With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep. Children have their play on the seashore of worlds. They know not how to swim, they know not how to cast nets. Pearl-fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail in their ships, while children gather pebbles and scatter them again. They seek not for hidden treasures, they know not how to cast nets. The sea surges up with laughter, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach. Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother while rocking her baby’s cradle. The sea plays with children, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach. On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships are wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and children play. On the seashore of endless worlds is the great meeting of children. Gitanjali , originally composed in Bengali, was self-published in 1910 by Rabindranath Tagore. Later, his English translation of the book, Song Offerings , was published by the India Society of London in 1912, whereupon it won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. In his introduction to the second edition, published in 1913 by the Macmillan Company, I...

The Nobel Prizes for physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine have generally been the least controversial, while those for literature and peace have been, by their very nature, the most exposed to critical differences. The Peace Prize has been the prize most frequently reserved or withheld. List of Nobel Prize winners Nobelists by year The table provides a Nobel Prize winners by year year category name country* achievement *Nationality given is the citizenship of the recipient at the time the award was made. Prizes may be withheld or not awarded in years when no worthy recipient can be found or when the world situation (e.g., World Wars I and II) prevents the gathering of information needed to reach a decision. **Prize awarded in 2019. 1901 chemistry Netherlands laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure literature France peace Switzerland France physics Germany discovery of X-rays physiology/medicine Germany work on serum therapy 1902 chemistry Germany work on sugar and purine syntheses literature Germany peace Switzerland Switzerland physics Netherlands investigation of the influence of magnetism on radiation Netherlands investigation of the influence of magnetism on radiation physiology/medicine U.K. discovery of how malaria enters an organism 1903 chemistry Sweden theory of electrolytic dissociation literature Norway peace U.K. physics France discovery of spontaneous radioactivity France investigations of radiation phenomena discovered by Becquerel France inv...

New Delhi: Tripura CM Biplab Deb has been mired in flak ever since his errant comment about imminent Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore returning his Nobel Prize to protest against British oppression became viral. “Rabindranath Tagore had given away his Nobel prize in protest against the British,” Deb said during the 157th birth anniversary event of Nobel laureate and poet Rabindranath Tagore in Tripura. This, however, is not true. In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European, non-white person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, which includes a medal, a citation and a cash prize of 8,000 pounds. According to the website of the Swedish Academy, the body that organises the annual honours, the award was given to Tagore for his collection of poems titled ‘Geetanjali’, which he himself translated into English. The Academy acknowledged Tagore for "his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West”. But he never returned it. In fact, the Nobel was a source of great joy to the literary community in India as this was the first time an Indian had won the award. In a book titled ‘Daughters of Jorashankho’, the author Aruna Chakravarti writes that Tagore had been travelling in his motor car with some friends to Chaupahari Forest to see the Sal and Deodhar trees in Birbhum when he received news of the Nobel. Though many in the European academic ...

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