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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 78
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Rabindranath Tagore, Ramakrishna, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Mata Amritanandamayi, Srimanta Sankardeva, Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Jayatirtha Dasa, Dhondo Keshav Karve, Tulsidas, Swami Shraddhanand, Kanaka Dasa, Acyutananda, Swami Vipulananda, Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, Indradyumna Swami, Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Sudhakar Chaturvedi, Madhavendra Puri, Nityananda, Ram Charan Maharaj, Surdas, Chattampi Swamikal, Nabakrishna Deb, K. B. Hedgewar, Pandurang Sadashiv Sane, Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Bhai Parmanand, Vadirajatirtha, Mohan Bhagwat, Rajnarayan Basu, Raghupathi Venkataratnam Naidu, Padmanabha Tirtha, Ekkirala Bharadwaja, Gagangiri Maharaj, Swami Sri Lilashahji Maharaj, Mahatma Hansraj, Kaliprasanna Singha, Erkkara Raman Nambudiri, K. S. Sudarshan, Swami Vijnanananda, Mezhathol Agnihothri, Bodheswaran, Ram Chandra Vidyabagish, Dhirendranath Choudhury, Totapuri, Chinna Jeeyar Swamy, Ram Madhav, S. Kanapathipillai, Jhulelal, Kalicharan Brahma, D. Kumaraswamy, Ashok Singhal, Ram Kishor Ji Maharaj, J. D. Ponit, Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee. Excerpt: Rabindranath Tagore (Hindustani pronunciation: , Bengali: Bengali: , Robindronath hakur) (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music. As author of Gitanjali with its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse," he was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913). His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual, and this together with his mesmerizing persona gave him a prophet-like aura in the west. His "elegant prose and magical poetry" still remain largely unknown outside the confines of Bengal. A Pirali Brahmin from Kolkata, Tagore was already writing poems since he was...