Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his collection Gitanjali published in London in 1912. The prize gained even more significance by being given to an Indian for the first time.

No. 43

The fish in the water is silent,

the animal on the earth is noisy,

the bird in the air is singing,

But Man has in him the

silence of the sea,

the noise of the earth

and the music of the air.

— Rabindranath Tagore