जीवनी

The only person to compose the national anthems of two countries (India and Bangladesh).

Was the first person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature whose main work was composed in a non-European language (Bengali).

Knighted in 1915.

Surrendered the knighthood in 1919 as a protest against the Amritsar Massacre by British troops in India.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Of course man is useful to man, because his body is a marvelous machine and his mind an organ of wonderful efficiency. But he is a spirit as well, and this spirit is truly known only by love. W

It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.