Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 and he wrote countless of poems, books, and articles. His father knew Persian and could recite the poetry of Hafiz by heart. It is always related to The Power of Love and the closeness to God. He was deeply influenced by Baul mysticism, Sahaja Buddhism, Philosophy,Vedanta and Upanishads.
Rabindranath Tagore Known mostly for his poetry, Tagore wrote novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas, and thousands of songs. His short stories are most highly regarded, he is indeed credited with originating the Bengali-language version of the genre. He renovate Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with contextual modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Adaptations of novels and short stories in cinema
Bengali
• Natir Puja – 1932 – The only film directed by Rabindranath Tagore
• Gora — 1938 Gora (novel) — Naresh Mitra
• Noukadubi– Nitin Bose
• Bou Thakuranir Haat – 1953 (Bou Thakuranir Haat) – Naresh Mitra
• Kabuliwala – 1957 (Kabuliwala) – Tapan Sinha
• Kshudhita Pashan – 1960 (Kshudhita Pashan) – Tapan Sinha
• Teen Kanya – 1961 (Teen Kanya) – Satyajit Ray
• Charulata - 1964 (Nastanirh) – Satyajit Ray
• Megh o Roudra – 1969 (Megh o Roudra) – Arundhati Devi
• Ghare Baire – 1985 (Ghare Baire) – Satyajit Ray
• Chokher Bali – 2003 (Chokher Bali) – Rituparno Ghosh
• Shasti – 2004 (Shasti) – Chashi Nazrul Islam
• Shuva – 2006 (Shuvashini) – Chashi Nazrul Islam
• Chaturanga – 2008 (Chaturanga) – Suman Mukhopadhyay
• Noukadubi – 2011 (Noukadubi) – Rituparno Ghosh
• Elar Char Adhyay – 2012 (Char Adhyay) – Bappaditya Bandyopadhyay
Sacrifice – 1927 (Balidan) – Nanand Bhojai and Naval Gandhi
Milan – 1946 (Nauka Dubi) – Nitin Bose
Dak Ghar – 1965 (Dak Ghar) – Zul Vellani
Kabuliwala – 1961 (Kabuliwala) – Bimal Roy
Uphaar – 1971 (Samapti) – Sudhendu Roy
Char Adhyay – 1997 (Char Adhyay) – Kumar Shahani
Kashmakash – 2011 (Nauka Dubi) – Rituparno Ghosh
Stories by Rabindranath Tagore (Anthology TV Series) – 2015 – Anurag Basu
Bioscopewala – 2017 (Kabuliwala) – Deb Medhekar
English translations
Year Work
1914 Chitra[text 1]
1922 Creative Unity[text 2]
1913 The Crescent Moon[text 3]
1917 The Cycle of Spring[text 4]
1928 Fireflies
1916 Fruit-Gathering[text 5]
1916 The Fugitive[text 6]
1913 The Gardener[text 7]
1912 Gitanjali: Song Offerings[text 8]
1920 Glimpses of Bengal[text 9]
1921 The Home and the World[text 10]
1916 The Hungry Stones[text 11]
1991 I Won't Let you Go: Selected Poems
1914 The King of the Dark Chamber[text 12]
2012 Letters from an Expatriate in Europe
2003 The Lover of God
1918 Mashi[text 13]
1943 My Boyhood Days
1917 My Reminiscences[text 14]
1917 Nationalism
1914 The Post Office[text 15]
1913 Sadhana: The Realisation of Life[text 16]
1997 Selected Letters
1994 Selected Poems
1991 Selected Short Stories
1915 Songs of Kabir[text 17]
1916 The Spirit of Japan[text 18]
1918 Stories from Tagore[text 19]
1916 Stray Birds[text 20]
1913 Vocation[178]
1921 The Wreck