Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 May 1861, in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter.He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal" India's National Gallery of Modern Art lists 102 works by Tagore in its collections.
