Context:
On 1st April 2025, Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan hosted an international seminar to mark the 100th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to China (1924)
Rabindranath Tagore:
- Birth – Calcutta, 7th May 1861.
- Son of Debendranath Tagore, a prominent philosopher and religious reformer.
- Titles – Gurudev, Kabiguru, Biswakabi.
- Popularly known as Bard of Bengal,
- 1st non-European to win Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) for Gitanjali.
- Renounced British knighthood after Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (1919).
- Composed Jana Gana Mana—India’s National Anthem and Amar Sonar Bangla – Bangladesh’s National Anthem.
- Founded Visva-Bharati University in 1921 (learning in harmony with nature; motto: “Where the world meets in one nest”).
- Established Cheena Bhavana in 1937 to promote Indo-Chinese ties.
- Contributions to Art and Literature –
- Poetry: Gitanjali, Balaka, Sonar Tori.
- Novels: Ghare-Baire, Gora, Chokher Bali.Plays: Chitra, The Post Office.
- Painting – Introduced abstract, symbolic styles, asserting Indian visual identity.
- Dance Dramas – Chitrangada, Shyama, Chandalika
Source: TH
Previous Year Question
With reference to Madanapalle of Andhra Pradesh, which one of the following statements is correct?
[UPSC Civil Service Exam – 2021 Prelims]
(a) Pingali Venkayya designed the tricolour Indian National Flag here.
(b) Pattabhi Sitaramaiah led the Quit India Movement of Andhra region from here.
(c) Rabindranath Tagore translated the National Anthem from Bengali to English here.
(d) Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott set up headquarters of Theosophical Society first here.
Answer: (c)