A Bengali mystic and artist, Rabindranath Tagore was a great poet, philosopher, music composer and a leader of Brahma Samaj who became a prominent voice of the Indian heritage. Best known for his poems and short stories, essays, novels articles etc., Tagore largely contributed to the Bengali literature in the late 19th and early 20th century and created his masterpieces such as Ghare- Baire, Yogayog, Sandhya Sangeet, Naibedya, Gitanjali and Gitimalya. As a Bengali polymath, he redesigned his region’s literature and music and became the first Non- European to win the Nobel Prize for literature for “Gitanjali” the book of poems.
As a humanist, Universalist, internationalist and strident anti-nationalist, he condemned the British Rule and advocated independence from Britain. He wrote articles, songs and poems electrifying the independence movement, though he never participated in it directly.
He was the only person to have written the national anthems of two countries. Two famous songs composed by him Amar Sonar Bangla and Jana Gana Mana became national anthem of Bengladesh and India respectively after their independence. Aside from this, the greatest legacy of the poet to his country is the world renowned institution known as ‘Vishwa-Bharti University’.
Life History of Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore Asia’s first Noble Laureate was born on 7 May, 1861 at Jorasanko in the heart of Calcutta. His family was famous for its progressive socio-religious and cultural innovations during 19th Bengal Renaissance. He was the fourteenth and youngest son of Maharishi Debendranath Tagore and Sarda Devi and grandson of Dwarkanath Tagore. His grandfather Dwarkanath was a religious and social reformer and worked unceasingly for ...
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...s highest which not only imparts information and knowledge to us but also promotes love and follow feelings between us and the living beings of the world”.
True education brings self-realization and enlightenment. It seeks to unfold all that is good and noble to individual. It is an all round development of human potentialities for the attainment of a full life. He believed that education should help an individual to achieve complete manhood, so that all his powers may be developed to full extent for his own individual perfection and the perfection of the society in which he is born. The highest mission of education is to help in realising the inner principle of the unity of all knowledge and all activities of social and spiritual being. Tagore’s concept of ideal education covers aims of education, ideal atmosphere for education, curriculum, teacher and method.
Thomas Paine was one of the great supporters of the American Revolution. He was a journalist and used his pen and paper to urge the public to break free from Great Brittan. He wrote anonymously, yet addressed the public as he spoke out about his beliefs. The first pamphlet he published, influencing independence from Brittan, was called Common Sense
on the radical views of the time. After all of his adventures, big and small,
political movements of his time and of future events by refusing to subscribe to political
Thomas Paine was an activist for many causes throughout his lifetime including the abolition of slavery, government rule by democracy rather than a monarchy, and in later years about what he believed were falsehoods in the Bible. He was an advocate for freedom of the people and his writings were often controversial. He believed in democracy and leaned toward rule by the common man. After becoming a friend of Benjamin Franklin, he traveled to the colonies. While in the colonies his writings on the American Revolution caused him to become an enemy of the British Government. When he returned to Great Britain his writings as a proponent for the French Revolution caused him to have to flee to France to avoid arrest. His political stance in France eventually caused him to be imprisoned and he eventually had to flee again to the United States to escape long-term imprisonment. He traveled quite a bit and was able to see firsthand the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Thomas Paine was a gifted writer, and he was very devoted to his causes. He is extremely famous for his pamphlet Common Sense which he wrote about what he felt was the necessity for American independence and later had an input into the Constitution of the United States of America. There were a number of gifted male writers during this timeframe who wrote about the same issues, including Edmund Burke, so even though he was a revolutionary writer, he was not unique.
Mohandas Gandhi began life as the fourth son in his family— hardly the child typically expected to bring about greatness, even though his father was the small state’s Diwan, or prime minister. He was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India. From an early age, he exhibited the gentleness and compassion that he would come to cherish later in life. One story about him says that he loved nature enough to climb a mango tree and bandage its branch. Like the vast majority of Indian families, Gandhi’s was a member of the Hindu religion and its associated culture. As was tradition for many at the time, he was wed at the age of thirteen to Kasturba, another child of the same age. A few years later, when he was sixteen, Gandhi’s father passed away. This left a deep impression on the boy, and he would always remember him with fondness, as we can see from his later ...
...enal poet who received credit where it was due and till this day continues to amaze the different fields of literary arts, and was a brilliant man whose life was shaped by the tragedies and tribulations caused by rough childhood and the death of many loved ones.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was one of the leading spiritual, political, moral, and cultural leaders of the 1900's. He helped free India from British control by using a unique method of nonviolent resistance. Gandhi is honored by the people of India, as the father of their nation. He was slight in build, but had great physical and moral strength. He was assassinated, by an Indian, who resented his program of tolerance for all creeds and religions.
Both, Kalyan Rao and Dr. Narendra Jadhav represent a part of an awakened and educated Dalit community, focusing on their past, which is not found in written histories. They belong to the generation of struggle and assertion. The similarities between the two writers go further when we see their progressive shift from an untouchable to one of the recognised and well identified personalities in present literary and socio-cultural scenario. Kalyan Rao is a writer, a Dalit, a Dalit Christian and also a Dalit social activist. Similarly Narendra Jadhav, a Dalit writer and a converted Buddhist has also put his marks as an acclaimed Indian bureaucrat, economist, thinker, social scientist and educationist.
All throughout history, there have been several events in which people were forced to take a stand for something they believed in. There have been wars, civil rights movements, protests, and certainly fights for independence. As a result, groups of people or individuals begin to arise and essentially become leaders of a movement in the direction of better opportunities. One of these leaders, Mohandas Gandhi or sometimes referred to as Mahatma Gandhi, was an anti war activist and civil rights leader. Today, he remains one of the most influential leaders in history. He took a stand that was both peaceful and effective and essentially earned India its independence.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is considered to be the Twentieth Century’s modern day Messiah. He was born of a modest middle class family from India and educated in law from the aristocratic society of London, England. Mahatma Gandhi was the paramount leader for Indian nationalism in British-ruled India who exercised non-violent civil disobedience and led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Once ----- stated, “Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside” (____). And so did the great and unforgettable leader, Mahatma Gandhi. Who was the real Father of the Indian nation? Was Gandhi what one thought he was? Gandhi was and will always be on known for every child, every young man and woman, and every old man and woman mind. He will always be depicted as a noble leader whom spent life fighting for justice through “satyagraha”- reaching truth. Contrastingly, there is a second face to the person that we all adore. A face that was not known as the “Mahatma” or the “Bapu” that we all recognize and venerate. The side, which came to light by several well-known historians and writers, was unfortunately, a side that neither one of us would anticipate from a courageous, kind and gentle leader. Even though India’s God-Like Founding Father, Gandhi, was a great leader, there are further little known parts of his life, which are not yet exposed.
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Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta, in what is now West Bengal, in 1861. He was a prolific poet and is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. He is known for being the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali, a collection
Throughout his career he wrote several "occasional poems," which celebrated particular events of a public character, a military victory, a death, or a political crisis. What made these poems he wrote special was the fact that they were written not for the self but for the nation. In 1670 he was appointed poet laureate and royal historiographer.