A Mind Without Fear
India Today|September 25, 2017

RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861—1941) Moulder of independent India’s intellectual inheritance

Damayanti Datta
A Mind Without Fear

Poet, novelist, playwright, lyricist, composer, artist, institution-builder, much of what is known about Tagore is legend: he wrote some 200 books, 40 volumes of poetry, 2,500 songs; he gave India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka their national anthems; won the first Nobel Prize outside Europe; was the first Indian to receive (and reject) a British knighthood; and he had set up institutions—to recharge education and reform village life—such as Visva Bharati University.

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