7 May 1861: Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, was born
7 May 1861: Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, was born
“The work of a supreme culture, they yet appear as much the growth of the common soil as the grass and the rushes. A tradition, where poetry and religion are the same thing, has passed through the centuries, gathering from learned and unlearned metaphor and emotion, and carried back again to the multitude the thought of the scholar and of the noble.” – W.B. Yeats in the preface of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize winning work Gitanjali.During childhood, going to school was young Rabi’s least favourite activity. He found the teaching method, which included punishment if the lesson wasn’t learned, very painful. Later in life, Rabindranath started a school in Shantiniketan, which was experimental in a way that it inspired children to study in a natural environment and not within the four walls of a classroom, with liberal teachers.
