In one poem, this author writes about "[sitting] on the river bank, sad and alone," a view on village life from an outsider's perspective. Besides writing "The Golden Boat," he also portrays his conflicting ideas about Western culture with the educated and gentle Nikhil, and Nikhil's plain, traditional, and devoted wife Bimala in his novel The Home and the World. He wrote a play in which Nandini l
In one poem, this author writes about "[sitting] on the river bank, sad and alone," a view on village life from an outsider's perspective. Besides writing "The Golden Boat," he also portrays his conflicting ideas about Western culture with the educated and gentle Nikhil, and Nikhil's plain, traditional, and devoted wife Bimala in his novel The Home and the World. He wrote a play in which Nandini leads the oppressed citizens of a kleptomaniac king towards the destruction of an eponymous red flower. This playwright of Red Oleanders wrote Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem of India. For 10 points, name this Bengali poet of the "Song Offerings", who was introduced by W.B. Yeats in the Gitanjali.
In one poem, this author writes about "[sitting] on the river bank, sad and alone," a view on village life from an outsider's perspective.
Rabindranath Tagore 