Rabindranath Tagore - Nobel Prize for Literature...

[Shuvra]

Please can I request that Rabindranath Tagore be listed in the Author's List please, he is one of th emost influential writers of the first half of the twnetieth century. It'd be great to have some one still so refreshing and charming in their language, poems, plays, and so much more..

We're a big fan here in England!

Shuv

[pennashri]

Rabindranath Tagore is undoubtedly India's most prolific literary genius. This year India, and the creative world, celebrates the 150th birth anniversary of Gurudev, as he is revered.

For me, brought up on his celebrated works, it is a special occasion as I take inspiration from him whenever I write my pieces. He was erudite but a modernist.

He was not timid as he dared the British Rule by returning the Knighthood he was decorated with in 1915. He protested against the indiscriminate genocide, the Jalianwalabagh massacre in 1919. It marked the darkest period of India's freedom struggle. In a way it marked the beginning of the end of the British Rule.