Quote of the Day — Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

1861–1941

Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861, in the Jorasanko mansion of Calcutta, into one of the most distinguished and intellectually vibrant families of nineteenth-century Bengal. The Tagore family had been at the forefront of the Bengal Renaissance, a period of profound cultural and intellectual awakening in India, and young Rabindranath grew up surrounded by artists, musicians, writers, and social reformers. His father, Debendranath Tagore, was a prominent philosopher and religious leader who had helped establish the Brahmo Samaj reform movement, and his older brothers were accomplished writers, musicians, and intellectuals in their own right. It was in this…