Rabindranath Tagore, sobriquet 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 “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”, he
became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.He
is sometimes referred to as “The Bard of Bengal”.