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Gitanjali

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First published: 1912
Pages: 117

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01 - Introduction
14:31
02 - Verses 1 to 10
7:10
03 - Verses 11 to 20
8:00
04 - Verses 21 to 30
6:56
05 - Verses 31 to 40
6:53
06 - Verses 41 to 50
10:38
07 - Verses 51 to 60
11:49
08 - Verses 61 to 70
9:35
09 - Verses 71 to 80
8:32
10 - Verses 81 to 90
7:08
11 - Verses 91 to 103
9:21

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These short devotional poems carry a single, quiet motto: I am here to sing thee songs. Written first in Bengali and gathered in 1910, they speak to the divine in the language of everyday longing, addressing God as a lover, a friend, and a presence found in ordinary life rather than in temples or doctrine. Tagore prepared his own English versions, and with an introduction by W. B. Yeats the collection reached readers across Europe and America, winning him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first awarded to a writer from Asia. The verses remain among the most beloved in modern Indian literature.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, composer, painter, and thinker whose reshaping of literature and music left a lasting mark on the subcontinent. In 1913 he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.