Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2023: Date, History And Quotes – Rabindranath Tagore is celebrated across the world for his remarkable contributions to literature, music and art. Rabindranath Tagore from West Bengal, was the legendary Bengali poet, writer, painter, social reformer and philosopher. He significantly influenced the cultural and political history of India. Every year, Rabindranath Jayanti is celebrated across the country on the 25th day of the Bengali month Boishakh to commemorate his birth anniversary.
- In 2023, Indian Citizens will observe the 162nd birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore on May 9.
- While Rabindranath Jayanti is also observed on May 7 by a few organisations and in some places. According to the Gregorian Calendar Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861.
- According to the traditional Bengali calendar, In West Bengal Rabindra Jayanti, is celebrated on the 25th day of the Bengali month Boishakh or “Ponchishe Boishakh”.
- According to the Bengali calendar, Tagore was born on the 25th day of the month of Boishakh.
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Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2023: History
- Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861, and was a highly popular writer, known for his diverse literary talent, which included poetry, songs, short stories, and plays.
- He started composing poems at the age of 8 and published his first collection when he was 16.
- His father wanted him to become a barrister, but he decided to study Shakespeare, Religio Medici, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra on his own.
- He established Shanti Niketan, a practical-based educational institution.
- In 1913, he was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his poetry collection, ‘Gitanjali,’ which was first composed in Bengali and then translated into English.
- At the age of 42, Rabindranath Tagore married Mrinalini Devi.
- He started sketching and painting and conducted several successful exhibits of his works at the age of 60.
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Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2023: Quotes
- Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, Where knowledge is free.- Rabindranath Tagore
- The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life. -Rabindranath Tagore
- If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. -Rabindranath Tagore
- A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them. -Rabindranath Tagore
- Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love. -Rabindranath Tagore
- Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language is not in its obstructiveness. Exclusively viewed from the side of the obstacle, nature appears inimical to the idea of morality. But if that were abs -Rabindranath Tagore