The Spirit of Japan

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), a towering figure in Indian literature and a sage of the East, was a polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art. Born into the Tagore family, known for its cultural and literary heritage, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his sublime poetry in the collection 'Gitanjali'. Tagore's literar...