Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 - 7 Aug 1941), (Gurudev), was great Indian poet, a visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer. He became India's and Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

He founded great institute Visva-Bharati University.

His works included numerous novels, short-stories, collection of songs, dance-drama, political and personal essays. Some? are Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World). His verse, short stories, and novels, many defined by rhythmic lyricism, colloquial language, meditative naturalism, and philosophical contemplation, received worldwide acclaim. His two songs? are now the national anthems of Bangladesh and India: the Amar Shonar Bangla and the Jana Gana Mana.