This man was the youngest of fourteen children, each of whom contributed to their region's culture and literature. One of his non-literary achievements was the creation of a school, the Shantiniketan, and later a university, the Viswabharati, near Calcutta, as an alternative to the colonial education of Indians. He began his career as a poet, and works of his include Fireflies, Red Oleanders, and The Crescent Moon. FTP, n
This man was the youngest of fourteen children, each of whom contributed to their region's culture and literature. One of his non-literary achievements was the creation of a school, the Shantiniketan, and later a university, the Viswabharati, near Calcutta, as an alternative to the colonial education of Indians. He began his career as a poet, and works of his include Fireflies, Red Oleanders, and The Crescent Moon. FTP, name this writer, prominent in the Bengali Renaissance, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 and whose collection Gitanjali or Song Offering had its introduction written by Yeats.          |
This man was the youngest of fourteen children, each of whom contributed to their region's culture and literature.
Rabindranath {Tagore} [ruh-BEEND-run-naht tuh-GOHR]