Rabindranath
Tagore, mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for
literature is among the leading personalities
of modern Bangladesh & India. He was born
in Calcutta on May 7, 1861 and was the youngest
of fourteen children. His father, Debendranath
Tagore, was a Sanskrit scholar and a leading
member of the Brahmo Samaj. Rabindranath's early
education was imparted at home. In school, while
others use to learn their lessons, he would
slip into more exciting world of dreams. Inspired
by his older nephew, he wrote his first poem
when he was hardly seven. At the age of seventeen,
his first book of poems was published.
