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🇮🇳 Rabindranath Tagore
India's greatest poet; wrote India's national anthem; first Asian Nobel laureate
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✍️ Key Facts
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Born 7 May 1861 in Calcutta; Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 — first non-European winner
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Wrote Jana Gana Mana (India's national anthem) and Amar Sonar Bangla (Bangladesh's national anthem)
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Founded Visva-Bharati University (Santiniketan, 1921); his 2,230 songs form Rabindra Sangeet — a genre of its own
Tagore wrote the national anthems of both India (Jana Gana Mana) and Bangladesh (Amar Sonar Bangla)
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✍️ Famous Authors
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🇮🇳 India
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1861
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India's greatest poet; wrote India's national anthem; first Asian Nobel laureate