5 lesser-known facts about Rabindranath Tagore

He was awarded Knighthood in 1915, but renounced it in 1919 as a protest against the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre in Amritsar.

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Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, becoming the first Indian to receive the prestigious award.

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Besides the Indian national anthem, the Nobel Laureate also wrote and composed the song that was adopted as Bangladesh’s national anthem.

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While many know him as a poet, writer and philosopher, Tagore was also a painter.

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Tagore founded the Visva-Bharati University at Shantiniketan in 1921 to challenge the traditional classroom learning system.

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