Ravindranath Tagore

Ravindranath Tagore born in 1861. He is a poet philosopher and teacher. He wrote poetry, drama and fiction in the Bengali language and was also a celebrated artist and musician. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 after the publication of 'Gitanjali' in English a volume of spiritual poetry. In 1919 he established at santiniketan a university for promoting cultural co-operation between the East and West and named it Vishwa-Bharathi.