Rabindranath Tagore

Why in news?

• PM Modi Paid  Tribute To Rabindranath Tagore On His 160^th Birth Anniversary.

About Tagore:

• Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941 ) is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal" as he reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art.
• He was the son of Debendranath Tagore,  a reformer and a leader Brahmo Samaj.
• He became in 1913 the first non-European as well as the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• He was an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance and founded the Visva-Bharati University.
• He opposed British imperialism and renounced his knighthood in response to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919.

Works:

• Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes].
• Tagore’s major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar (1912) [The Post Office], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable], Muktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall], and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders].
• He is the author of several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929) [Crosscurrents].
• His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's "Jana Gana Mana" and Bangladesh's "Amar Shonar Bangla". The Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work.

Prelims Question:

Consider the following statements regarding Rabindranath Tagore:
1.He wrote the national anthem of Bangladesh.
2.He renounced his knighthood in response to suppression of non-cooperation movement.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a)1 only
(b)2 only
(c)Both 1 and 2
(d)Neither 1 nor 2

Answer to Prelims question