Ravindranath Tagore

• Born on 1861 May7 at Chithbur village in Kolkata, Westbangal

• House name: Jerasango Bhavan

• Hindusthan Co-operative Insurance company now works in Jerasango Bhavan.

• Tagore’s house now known as Ravindra Bharathiya Sarvakalasala.

• Father: Devendranath Tagore - Started the newspaper Indian Mirror in 1862, Founder of Adibrahma samajam and Thathwabodhini Sabha

• Mother: Sarada Devi

• Married Bhavatharangini on 1883

• Tagore acted in the film Vathmikiprathibha

• The film directed by Satyajith Rai based on Tagores’s life: Theenkanya

• The train started on Tagore’s 150th birthday: Kaviguru Express/Samskrithi Express

• Tagore returned his Sir name because of Jalian Walabagh massacre. Similarly

• Gandhiji returned : Kaiser e Hind

• Sarojini Naidu returned : Kesari Hind

• C Sankaran Nair returned: Viceroy’s Executive role

• Tagore renamed All India Radio to Akasavani

• In 1927 Radio broadcasting started in India at Bombay

• In Kerala Radio broadcasting started in 1943 at Trivandrum

• The name All India Radio came to exist on 1936

• All India Radio renamed to Akasavani in 1957

• HQ of Akasavani : New Delhi

• Akasavani : Bahujana Hithaya Bahujana Sukhaya

• Tagore wrote national anthem for two nations, India and Bangladesh

• National anthem of Bangladesh : Amar sona Bangla

• Jana Gana Mana first sung on a session of INC at Kolkata in 1911

• Indian concstitution accepted Jana gana mana on 24th January 1950

• The time needed to sing Jana gana mana : 52sec

• Mininum time : 20sec

• Two Indian rivers mentioned in our national anthem : Ganga and Yamuna

• The word ‘Jaya’ repeated in our national anthem 10 times

• It was written in Bangali language

• Tone : Sankarabharanam

• It was composed by Capt. Ramsingh Takur

• First sung by Sarala Devi

• Kuttippuram Kesavan Nair translated Jana gana mana into Malyalam

• In 1878 Tagore published his first Kavithasamaharm

• In 1880 his first play Kaboolivala played

• In 1901 founded Santhinikethan

• On 22nd Dec 1922 Santhinikethan was renamed to Viswabharathi University (Desikanth D-lit honouring university)

• PM is the Chancellor of Viswabharathi University.

• Viswabharathi University Apthavakyam : E Lokam Oru Pakshikoodu Pole

• In 1910 Tagore wrote Geethanjali

• In 1912 Gethanjali was published in English

• Number of lines 157

• W B Yeats prepared Inroduction for Geethanjali

• J C Bose was the scientist who was being mentiond in Geethanjali

• G Sankarakurupu translated Geethanjali into Malayalam

• In 1913 Tagore won Nobel prize for Geethanjali

• First Asian Nobel Prize laurite

• In 1914 Tagore put forward santhinikethan Plan

• In 1922 Tagore met Sreenarayana Guru with C F Andrews (Deenabandhu)

• In 1925 Tagore visited Italy. He was invited by Musolini

• Died on 1941 Aug 7

• “Kalathinte Kavilil Veena Kannuneer Thulli” – Tagore about Tajmahal

• “Ivide Silayude Bhasha Manushyanta Bhashaye Marikadakum” – Tagore about Surya temple in Konark

• “Budhanusesham India kanda Mahanaya Vyakthi” , “Mahathma”, “Bappu” - Tagore about Gandhiji

• “Indiayude Rithurajan” – Tagore about Nehru

• “Ente Gurunathan” – Nehru about Tagore

• “Desnayak” – Tagore about S C Bose

• Krithikal – Gora, Postoffice, Bi-surgen, The Child, The Rock Garden, King of the Rock Garden