India, May 10 -- Rabindranath Tagore needs no introduction, which is a good thing because one can hardly begin to introduce him when words are limited. It can be said that Rabindranath was a Bengali polymath who lived from 1861 to 1941.

He was a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. But his influence extended far beyond these spheres. One of the most prominent leaders of the Bengali Renaissance, he reshaped the society in Bengal as a whole.

In 1913, Rabindranath became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book Gitanjali (which can be translated as song offerings). Two of his compositions have...