Sneak Peak On Rabindranath Tagore's Work

At the age of sixteen, Rabindranath Tagore started writing dramas. Jyotirindranath, his brother, accompanied him. When he was 20, he wrote his first drama, Valmiki Pratibha. One of the best dramas is Visarjan, which was published in 1890. Chitrangada, Shyama, Chandrika, and other dramas are among the others.

Short Stories:

At the age of 16, he began writing short stories. In 1877, the first short story was published. Between 1891 and 1895, he published a number of stories. This four-year era is known as Rabindranath Tagore’s “Sadhana” period. Kabuliwala, Kshudhita Pashan, Atithi, and other well-known short stories are among his works.

Novels:

He was unquestionably a brilliant writer. He published eight novels and four novellas. Char Odhay, Chaturanga, Noukadubi, and Shusher Kobita are some of Tagore’s best-known works. However, Ghare Baire condemns the Swadeshi Movement’s growing terrorism and religious spiri? On the other hand, Gora raises contentious concerns concerning Indian individuality.

Chokher Bali

Tagore’s Bengali novel ‘Chokher Bali’ or ‘A grain of sand’ is a tale about an extramarital affair. It’s a storey about passion, wishes, relationships, unrealized dreams, and reality. This novel depicts the complexities of human relationships and character very well.

Gora:

Gora is a sprawling, exhaustive, and an eminently important novel set in the 1880s. The novel touches on a variety of topics, including religion, gender, and feminism, as well as pitting tradition against modernity.

Ghare Baire:

Tagore’s Ghare Baire, published in 1916, is a multi-layered novel. It’s a storey about a married woman struggling to find her own identity while trapped in her home.

Rabindranath Tagore's Lesser-Known Truth

Tagore had a close relationship with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi. Tagore, a great admirer of Gandhi’s ideas on nationalism, bestowed the title of “Mahatma” on him as a mark of respect.

He composed India’s national anthem, ‘Jana Gana Mana,’ Bangladesh’s national anthem, ‘Amar SonarBangla,’ and Sri Lanka’s national anthem, ‘Nama Nama Sri Lanka Mata,’ in Bengali.

After meeting in 1930 at Albert Einstein’s home in Caputh, Germany, Rabindranath Tagore and his interactions with him were widely publicised. Both Nobel Laureates were admirers of each other.