Tagore’s 73rd death anniv today

Today is 22nd of Shraban, the 4th month in Bengali calendar. Rabindranath Tagore passed away on this day. The nation is observing the 73rd death anniversary of the Nobel laureate poet through various programmes. Different organisations and television channels are holding special programmes marking the death anniversary of the greatest poet of Bangla literature. In his long 7 decades of endeavours in different genres of Bangla literature, Tagore enriched Bangla language and literature and elevated their positions in the global arena. Though recongised as one of the greatest poets in the world Tagore was a rare man of multifarious merits. He was an expert in music, a novelist, a dramatist, an artiste, a music composer, an essayist, a philosopher, an academic, a linguist and a social reformer – all in one. As author of Gitanjali with its ‘profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse,’ he was the 1st non-European and the 1st Bangla-speaking person to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. The youngest of 13 surviving children, Tagore was born in the Jorasanko mansion in Kolkata of parents Debendranath Tagore (1817-1905) and Sarada Devi (1830-1875), according to a news agency.