The music and lyrics for the National Anthem of India were written by the first non-European winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Who was he?
"compositions for consideration, including Benjamin Britten, William Walton, Gian Carlo Menotti and Zubir Said, who later composed ""Majulah Singapura"", the national anthem of Singapore. None were deemed suitable. A few anthems have words by Nobel laureates in literature. The first Asian laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, wrote the words and music of ""Jana Gana Mana"" and ""Amar Shonar Bangla"", later adopted as the national anthems of India and Bangladesh respectively. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson wrote the lyrics for the Norwegian national anthem ""Ja, vi elsker dette landet"". Other countries had their anthems composed by locally important people. This is the case for Colombia, whose"
"Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath from the Indian subcontinent, a poet, musician and artist. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of ""Gitanjali"" and its ""profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"", he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his ""elegant prose and magical poetry"" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred"
"Texts Talks Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath from the Indian subcontinent, a poet, musician and artist. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of ""Gitanjali"" and its ""profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"", he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his ""elegant prose and magical poetry"" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is"
"dramatist, and writer from India, became in 1913 the first Asian Nobel laureate. He won his Nobel Prize in Literature for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literature of Europe and the Americas. He also wrote Jana Gana Mana the national anthem of India as well as Amar Sonar Bangla the national anthem of Bangladesh. Moreover, translation of his another song “Namo Namo Matha"" is the national anthem of Sri Lanka. This song was collected by his student Mr. Ananda Samarakoon and M. Nallathamby translated in Tamil language. Other Asian writers"
"Naresh Sohal Naresh Sohal (18 September 1939 – 30 April 2018) was an Indian-born composer of western classical music. He is the first composer in this tradition ever to make settings of texts in Sanskrit, Punjabi and Bengali (although he has also made many settings in English). He was the first composer ever to be offered an annual bursary by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Sohal was the first Non Resident Indian (NRI) ever to be awarded a ""Padma Shri"" (Order of the Lotus) by the Indian Government. Although Sohal wrote in the Western idiom, his extensive range of"
"'Bhagavad Gita' which concerns fulfilling one's responsibilities in the face of difficult choices. Naresh Sohal Naresh Sohal (18 September 1939 – 30 April 2018) was an Indian-born composer of western classical music. He is the first composer in this tradition ever to make settings of texts in Sanskrit, Punjabi and Bengali (although he has also made many settings in English). He was the first composer ever to be offered an annual bursary by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Sohal was the first Non Resident Indian (NRI) ever to be awarded a ""Padma Shri"" (Order of the Lotus) by the"
"Jorasanko Thakur Bari Jorasanko Thakur Bari (Bengali: ""House of the Thakurs"" (anglicised to ""Tagore"") in Jorasanko, north of Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. It is currently located on the Rabindra Bharati University campus at 6/4 Dwarakanath Tagore Lane Jorasanko, Kolkata 700007. It is the house in which the poet and first non-European Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore was born. It is also the place where he spent most of his childhood and died on 7 August 1941. It was built in the 18th century on the land donated by the famous Sett family of"
"were from his drama ""Achalayatan"" and eight other books of poetry — mainly ""Gitimalya"" (17 poems), ""Naivedya"" (15 poems) and ""Kheya"" (11 poems). The translations were often radical, leaving out or altering large chunks of the poem and in one instance fusing two separate poems (song 95, which unifies songs 89,90 of ""Naivedya""). Tagore undertook the translations prior to a visit to England in 1912, where the poems were extremely well received. In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English ""Gitanjali"". The English ""Gitanjali"" became popular in the West, and"
"by the works of Bengali poet and novelist Rabindranath Tagore, who was a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Indian music ranges over various traditions and regional styles. Classical music encompasses two genres and their various folk offshoots: the northern Hindustani and southern Carnatic schools. Regionalised popular forms include filmi and folk music; the syncretic tradition of the ""bauls"" is a well-known form of the latter. Indian dance also features diverse folk and classical forms. Among the better-known folk dances are the ""bhangra"" of Punjab, the ""bihu"" of Assam, the ""Jhumair"" and ""chhau"" of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal,"
"second has seven. Original haiku masters included such figures as Edo period poet Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉); others influenced by Bashō include Kobayashi Issa and Masaoka Shiki. The polymath Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer who was an Indian, became in 1913 the first Asian Nobel laureate. He won his Nobel Prize in Literature for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literatures of Europe and the Americas. He also wrote the Indian anthem. Later, other Asian writers won Nobel Prizes in literature, including Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, 1966), and Kenzaburō Ōe"
"Rabindra Sangeet Rabindra Sangeet ( ""Robindro shonggit"", ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore was a prolific composer with around 2,230 songs to his credit. The songs have distinctive characteristics in the music of Bengal, popular in India and Bangladesh. It is characterised by its distinctive rendition while singing which includes a significant amount of ornamentation like meend, murki, etc. and is filled with expressions of romanticism. The music is mostly based on Hindustani classical music, Carnatic"
"defining Bengali culture, both in West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is the author of the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh, both composed in Bengali. Other notable Bengali works of his are ""Gitanjali"", a book of poems for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, and many short stories and a few novels. It is widely accepted that Bengali Literature accomplished its contemporary look by the writings and influence of Rabindranath. In the fields of Drama and Satire, he influenced and created a very worthy posterity of him in Natyaguru Nurul Momen. Nurul Momen was"
"It also organises a festival of arts, Aban Mela. Jorasanko Thakur Bari Jorasanko Thakur Bari (Bengali: ""House of the Thakurs"" (anglicised to ""Tagore"") in Jorasanko, north of Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. It is currently located on the Rabindra Bharati University campus at 6/4 Dwarakanath Tagore Lane Jorasanko, Kolkata 700007. It is the house in which the poet and first non-European Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore was born. It is also the place where he spent most of his childhood and died on 7 August 1941. It was built in the 18th century on"
"Jyotirindranath Tagore Jyotirindranath Tagore () (May 4, 1849 – March 4, 1925) was a playwright, a musician, an editor and a painter. Endowed with an outstanding talent, he had the rare capability of spotting talent in others. He played a major role in the flowering of the talents of his younger brother, the first non-European Nobel Prize winner, Rabindranath Tagore. The grandson of Dwarkanath Tagore and the fifth son of Debendranath Tagore, Jyotirindranath was born in the Tagore family of Jorasanko, in Calcutta (now Kolkata). When viewed against the exceptionally brilliant achievements of his younger brother, Rabindranath Tagore, he loses"
"concertmaster and Francisco Casanovas the conductor. He also collaborated in India with the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature Rabindranath Tagore; thus, while the Indian national anthem's lyrics are Tagore's, the harmonisation is by Casanovas. He got a First Prize and the Golden Button playing the saxophone (an instrument which he had learned to play by himself in Paris) in the last edition of the International Interpretation Contest organised by Columbia Records, New York, in 1948, with his work ""Guajiras para saxofón y piano"". He became conductor of the New York Symphonic Jazz Orchestra. Casanovas left India for ever in 1956"
"awards—including award for Best Background score—to 40 different composers. Although the Indian film industry produces films in around 20 languages and dialects, the recipients of the award include those who have worked in seven major languages: Hindi (19 awards), Malayalam (9 awards), Tamil (8 awards), Telugu (7 awards), Bengali (6 awards), Kannada (5 awards) and Marathi (2 awards). The first recipient of the award was K. V. Mahadevan who was honoured for his composition in the Tamil film ""Kandan Karunai"" (1967). A. R. Rahman has been the most frequent winner with six wins, followed by Ilaiyaraja with five awards. Jaidev"
"countries, including the US, Canada, UK, Italy, France, Russia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Middle East and many more. Apart from his native tongue, Telugu, his works also include ones in other languages like Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, and Punjabi. He appeared as featured soloist with an award-winning British choir, performing the ""Gitanjali Suite"" with words from Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize-winning poetry and music by ""Dr. Joel"", the noted UK-based Goan composer. His clear diction in several languages prompted an invitation to record Tagore's entire Rabindra Sangeet compositions in Bengali, preserving them for posterity. He has sung in French,"
"Being home to notable people like Rabindranath Tagore, Asia's first Nobel laureate and composer of India's national anthem and Swami Vivekananda, a key figure in introducing Vedanta and Yoga in Europe and USA there houses and residencies like Shantiniketan and Jorasanko Thakur Bari are world famous and attract many tourists. West Bengal also has a long tradition of popular literature, music and drama largely based on Bengali folklore and Hindu epics and Puranas. Kolkata, the state capital city, was also the workplace of several social reformers, like Raja Ram Mohan Ray, Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, and Swami Vivekananda. These social reforms"
"Pandit Narendra Sharma Pandit Narendra Sharma (28 February 1913 – 12 February 1989) was an Indian writer, poet and lyricist in Hindi language. He also wrote some songs for Indian Hindi cinema, like the title song for ""Satyam Shivam Sundaram"" (1979), for which he also received a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Lyricist. Pandit Narendra Sharma was born in Jahangirpur near Khurja (now in Gautam Buddha Nagar district) Uttar Pradesh. He did his undergraduate program and M.A in English Literature at Allahabad University. Lata Mangeshkar the singer used to address him as her father while she was addressed as his"
"was his last work, and on 12 February 1989, four months after the show went on-air, he died aged 76. The following are the poems written by Narendra Sharma Pandit Narendra Sharma Pandit Narendra Sharma (28 February 1913 – 12 February 1989) was an Indian writer, poet and lyricist in Hindi language. He also wrote some songs for Indian Hindi cinema, like the title song for ""Satyam Shivam Sundaram"" (1979), for which he also received a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Lyricist. Pandit Narendra Sharma was born in Jahangirpur near Khurja (now in Gautam Buddha Nagar district) Uttar Pradesh. He"
"Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata (; Devanagari: भारत भाग्य विधाता ""Bhārata Bhāgya Vidhātā"" ""Dispenser of the destiny of India"") is a five-stanza Brahmo hymn in Bengali language dedicated to Supreme divine God or Para Brahman who is the dispenser of the destiny of India. It was composed and scored in a highly Sanskritized Bengali by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1911. The first stanza of the song has been adopted as the National Anthem of India. The poem was first sung on the second day of the annual session of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta on December 27,"
"movie adaptations by such film directors as Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha and Tarun Majumdar. The recent among these is a version of ""Chokher Bali"" and ""Noukadubi (2011 film)"" directed by Lt. Rituparno Ghosh, which features Aishwariya Rai (in ""Chokher Bali""). A favorite trope of these directors is to employ ""rabindra sangeet"" in the film adaptations' soundtracks.s. Among Tagore's notable non-fiction books are ""Europe Jatrir Patro"" (""Letters from Europe"") and ""Manusher Dhormo"" (""The Religion of Man""). Internationally, ""Gitanjali"" () is Tagore's best-known collection of poetry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913. Tagore was the first person (excepting"
"Asian Nobel laureate. He won his Nobel Prize in Literature for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literatures of Europe and the Americas. He is also the writer of the national anthems of Bangladesh and India. Other Asian writers who won Nobel Prize for literature include Yasunari Kawabata (Japan, 1968), Kenzaburō Ōe (Japan, 1994), Gao Xingjian (China, 2000), Orhan Pamuk (Turkey, 2006), and Mo Yan (China, 2012). Some may consider the American writer, Pearl S. Buck, an honorary Asian Nobel laureate, having spent considerable time in China as the daughter of"
"Prem Dhawan Prem Dhawan (1923–2001) was an Indian lyricist, music composer, choreographer, and actor of Bollywood known for his patriotic songs, especially for the lyrics and compositions for the 1965 Manoj Kumar starrer, Shaheed. He was a winner of the National Film Award for Best Lyrics in 1971 and was honoured by the Government of India in 1970 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award. Prem Dhawan was born on 13 July 1923 at Ambala in the present day Haryana state of India to a Jail Superintendent working for the British government. He did his college studies in"
"regional languages. The prize is open to all works and genres that correspond to the theme of the year. The prize is named for the collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" (1910) by Nobel-laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Fariba Hachtroudi is a Francophone writer of Iranian origin, President of the MoHa Foundation and co-founder of the prize, she said: ""The prize has two aims: to contribute to the promotion of the French language in India and also to the promotion of Indian works in France. Works by noted Indian writers not only in English, but in other regional languages like Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam"
"Indian D.Sc, a scientist-philosopher and educationist, and Barada Sundari Devi, a poet and singer, he is famous for poems like ""Noon"" and ""Shaper Shaped"". His father was a Doctorate of Science from the University of Edinburgh, settled in Hyderabad State, where he founded and administered the Hyderabad College, which later became the Nizam's College in Hyderabad. His mother was a poet and used to write poetry in Bengali. His other interests were politics, music, theatre and cinema. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1973. He married Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, a Socialist and leader of Women, who created the All India Women's"
"most renowned Bengali writer is Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In the last century, several Indian writers have distinguished themselves not only in traditional Indian languages but also in English. India's only native-born Nobel laureate in literature was the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore, but VS Naipaul, a diaspora Indian novelist born in Trinidad, also won the Nobel in 2001. Other major writers who are either Indian or of Indian origin and derive much inspiration from Indian themes are R. K. Narayan, Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Raja Rao, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Chandra, Mukul"
"of India from the constituency of Ongole on a Congress Party ticket. He was the first Indian film actor to be elected as a member of parliament. He translated Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's Geetanjali and multiple poems into Telugu under the name ""Ravindra Geetha"". He also translated Tagore's play ""Sacrifice"" into Telugu under the name ""Balidaanam"". He also co-founded ""Manasvini Charitable Trust"" to honor the film literature of ""Acharya Athreya."" The lyrics of all the film songs written by Athreya was consolidated into seven volumes. He underwent a Hip Replacement surgery and complications after the surgery resulted in his death."
"he was survived by his wife and two children: a son and a daughter. Na. Muthukumar Nagarajan Muthukumar (12 July 1975 – 14 August 2016) was an Indian poet, lyricist, and author. Best known for his Tamil language film songs, he received the most number of Filmfare Awards for Best Lyricist in Tamil and was a two-time recipient of the National Film Award for Best Lyrics for his works in ""Thanga Meenkal"" (2013) and ""Saivam"" (2014). Muthukumar grew up in a village Kannigapuram in Kancheepuram, India. He has a brother Ramesh kumar. At the age of four, he lost his"
"the English translation and believed that ""it would not make the right impression if recited"" and people would not consider Tagore ""a very great poet"", based on those translations. Satyajit Ray has been reported to have said about the documentary ""Rabindranath Tagore"" in his biography ""Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye"" by W. Andrew Robinson that, ""Ten or twelve minutes of it are among the most moving and powerful things that I have produced"". Often regarded as polymath, author of ""Gitanjali"" and its ""profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse"", Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature"
"prevented British massacres and even protected far more land than violent resistance. Mohandas K. Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India, instrumental in the Indian independence movement. The Nobel prize winning great poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was also an Indian, gave him the honorific ""Mahatma"", usually translated ""Great Soul."" He was the pioneer of a brand of nonviolence (or ""ahimsa"") which he called ""satyagraha""—translated literally as ""truth force"". This was the resistance of tyranny through civil disobedience that was not only nonviolent but also sought to change the heart of the opponent. He contrasted this with ""duragraha"","
"Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). Tagore ruled over the domain of Bengali poetry and literature for almost half a century, inescapably influencing contemporary poets. Bengali literature caught the attention of the international literary world when Tagore was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature for ""Gitanjali"", an anthology of poems rendered into English by the poet himself with the title ""Song Offering"". Since then Bengali poetry has travelled a long way. It has evolved around its own tradition; it has responded to the poetry movements around the world; it has assumed various dimensions in different tones, colours"
"Makhanlal Chaturvedi Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi (4 April 1889 – 30 January 1968), also called Pandit ji, was an Indian poet, writer, essayist, playwright and a journalist who is particularly remembered for his participation in India's national struggle for independence and his contribution to Chhayavaad, the Neo-romanticism movement of Hindi literature. He was awarded the first Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi for his work ""Him Taringini"" in 1955. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan in 1963. Chaturvedi was born in Khandwa village in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh on 4 April 1889. He became"