Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1869 in Calcutta in a wealth family.he is a well-know India poet,philosopher and Nobel laureate.he began to write poetry when he was a child.his first book was published when he was 17 years old. He went to England to study law. Soon after returning to India he became most important and popular.he wrote poetry,short stories,novels and plays.he also composed several hundred popular songs and in1929 ,he began painting.tagore wrote primarily in Bengali but translated his many works into English himself.he was awarded 1913 Nobel prize in literature for his creation'gitanajli',a collection of poetry.in 1915, he was awarded 'knighthood' by the British king George 5th. But Tagore renounce his knighthood in 1919  following the Amritsar massacre of about 400 indan demonstrators by British troops.two of his songs are national anthems of India and Bangladesh.