Dilip Kumar Mohammed Rafi Rabindranath Tagore Munshi Premchand Kishore Kumar Vivekananda
Thinker, scholar, writer, poet, painter, song-composer, nationalist and campaigner for world peace, Rabindranath Tagore was an extraordianrily versatile genius. he received the Nbel Prize for literature in 1913, the first Asian to do so, and was knighted in 1915 - an honour which he resigned in 1919 as a protes against British policy in punjab.
He believed that India could play the role of a unifier and synthesiser of the East and West towards a common nrichment of the humanities. It was to give form and content to this idea and provide a nucleus for inter-cultural fellowship that he founded the Visva Bharati world university at Santiniketan in Bengal. Tagore, to paraphrase Humayun Kabir, was essentially a poet with interests not confined to poetry. I sheer quantity of work few writers can equal him. His writings include more than a thousand poems and over 2,000 songs besides a large number of short stories, novels, dramatic works and essays on the most diverse topics. He was also a musician of the highest order. He took to painting when he was almost 70 and yet produced, within 10 years, about 3,000 pictures. His contributions to religious and educational thought, to politics and social reform to rural regeneration and economic reconstruction were notable.
Dilip Kumar Mohammed Rafi Rabindranath Tagore Munshi Premchand Kishore Kumar Vivekananda
As a writer Premchand is a pioneer of modern Hindi and Urdu social fiction. He wrote nearly 300 stories and novels. Among his best known novels are : Sevasadan, Rangamanch, Ghaban, Nirmala and Godan. Premchand represented the spirit of his times which marked a tension between Grandhism and socialism, and a slow change towards urbanization and uneasy modernism. Much of Premchand's best work is to be found among his 250 or so short stories, collected in Hindi under the title Manasarovar. Compact in form and style, they draw, as do his novels, on a notably wide range of northern Indian life for their subject matter. usually they point up a moral or reveal a single psychological truth. |
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