Today, on May 7 India celebrates the 160th birthanniversary of legendary writer and poet Rabindranath Tagore. Born in Bengal,Rabindranath Tagore is known for his humongous contribution to art, literature,and music. He lives through his work and his poems, songs, novels, shortstories, paintings, novellas, plays, and travelogues touch the lives of everyBengali every day.
Rabindranath Tagore is remembered as the great master ofliterature whose work has not left any human emotion untouched. His bookGitanjali made him the first Asian to win Nobel Prize for Literature. Hetranslated his collection of poems, Gitanjali into English ‘Song Offerings’whose preface was written by renowned poet WB Yeats.
In the preface, WB Yeats wrote, “We write long bookswhere no page perhaps has any quality to make writing a pleasure, beingconfident in some general design, just as we fight and make money and fill ourheads with politics- all dull things in the doing- while Mr. Tagore, like theIndian civilization itself has been content to discover the soul and surrenderhimself to its spontaneity.”
On Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2021, netizens pay tributeto the great poet and writer on social media platforms. On this occasion,#RabindranathTogore is trending on social media.
Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu acknowledged thegreat contribution of Tagore to Indian culture. Paying tribute, he tweeted,“Humble tributes to Gurudev #RabindranathTagore on his Jayanti. Through hisworks, Gurudev brought about a great confluence of our ancient wisdom andmodern reason. His powerful words inspired our freedom struggle too. Let usstrive to live by his ideals as a true homage to him.”
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot also tweeted, “My humbletributes to Nobel Laureate Gurudev #RabindranathTagore on his birthanniversary. As a humanist thinker, poet and writer, he espoused the cause ofhuman freedom. His vision and thoughts continue to inspire people across theworld.”