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26-08-13

Rabindranath Tagore: Clouds can be beautiful

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Thakur, anglicised to Tagore (Calcutta, 7 May 1861 - Calcutta, 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath and writer who reshaped his region's literature and music. He is the author of Gitanjali and became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and otherworldly dress earned him a prophet-like reputation in the West. His prose and poetry remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of the modern Indian subcontinent.