My favourite writer
There have been many great authors of fame in India. Rabindranath Tagore is my favourite author. He wrote many novels, poems, short stories and plays. He was also an educationalist, a social reformer, a musician and a religious preacher.
Rabindranath was a prominent figure in modern India. He is in the words of Prof. Sarvapally Radhakrishnan, “the greatest figure in the modern Renaissance.”
Tagore was born in a landlord family of Bengal at Kolkata on May 6, 1861. He did not attend any school or college. He was educated in the most open university in the world. He started a magazine. He wrote books in Bengali till he was fifty years of age.
He went abroad at the age of 52. People of other countries welcomed him as a noble ambassador of the Indian people. His book “Gitanjali '' won him the Nobel Prize in Literature. The king of England gave him the title of “Sir” in 1915. He opened his own famous school at Shantiniketan. Later. This school became a centre of culture and university.
His poems are full of the beauty of nature, love of God and children. He is called the “Shelley of Bengal”. He is an inspired singer who sings because he cannot help singing. Out of his books of poems, the “Gitanjali” is the best. His song, “Jan-Gan-Man” is our national anthem. One cannot forget his stories like “The Home-Coming”. In short, he is such a great writer as is born in a country only once in many countries.
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