Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 and died in1941.Rabindranath tagore Bengaki Indian poet, writer and philosopher,born and died in calcutta.He is best known for his poetic works,notably Gitanjali(1910 sings offering.).He also wrote philosophical plays ,novels and shorts stories.He received the novels prizes for literature in 1973 and was knighted in 1915 anhonour which resigned in 1919 as a protest against the Amritsar massacre (1919) by the British.

In 1901,Tagore founded near Bolpur the Shantiniketan a school to blend Eastern and Western philosophical and educational system. His poetric pioneered the use of colloquial Bengaki instead of the archaic literary idiom the approved for verse.