Poets

15 Aug 1872

Sri Aurobindo

Poet, nationalist and philosopher who moved from revolutionary politics to a yoga of his own devising, spending the second half of his life in Pondicherry writing The Life Divine and Savitri. Educated entirely in England until the age of twenty-one.

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7 May 1861

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet, composer and playwright, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1913. Wrote the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh, and reshaped Bengali letters almost single-handedly.

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