FTP identify this Bengali author, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner in literature.
He reflected on modernization in such philosophical works as The Home and the World and The Religion of Man, the latter of which was delivered as a Hibbert lecture at Oxford. Late in his life he turned to painting many of the same scenes he had described in novels like The Wreck and Three Companions. His dramatic works include The Post Office, but he is best known for contemplative collections of love and beauty like Songs of Kabir, Fireflies , and The Crescent Moon. His "Thou art the Ruler of all Minds" was adopted as the Indian national anthem after Yeats helped his Gitanjali become a sensation. FTP identify this Bengali author, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner in literature.
He reflected on modernization in such philosophical works as The Home and the World and The Religion of Man, the latter of which was delivered as a Hibbert lecture at Oxford.
Rabindranath Tagore