Rabindranath Tagore, sobriquetย Gurudev,
was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian
art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author
of Gitanjali and its ยprofoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verseย, he
became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.He
is sometimes referred to as ยThe Bard of Bengalย.
