Word: gitanjali
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Rabindranath Tagore, 80, India's most famed modern philosopher and most voluminous poet; in Calcutta, India. First Asiatic to win the Nobel Prize, he was crowned for Gitanjali, a selection of his poems, at the age of 52. He wrote some 3,000 lyrical poems, set them to his own music; published nearly 100 volumes of poetry, some 40 volumes of novels and short stories, some 50 volumes of literary, political, religious essays, scores of children's stories. A lecturer, a dreamer of universal brotherhood, which he was never able to bring about between Hindus and Moslems...