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Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) as per Bengali Calendar, also known by the sobriquet Gurudev was a Bengali polymath. He was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, educationist, social reformer, nationalist, business-manager and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
