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Rabindranath Tagore's Life in Weeks

Bengali poet, writer, composer, and painter who reshaped Bengali literature and music. He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

1861–1941 Indian Poet & Polymath 4,187 weeks (80 years)

Rabindranath Tagore's 4,187 Weeks

Each box represents one week. Lived weeks Key milestones

4,187
Total Weeks
29,309
Days Lived
5
Key Milestones
80
Years

Key Milestones

Age 8 · Week ~416

Began writing poetry

Age 17 · Week ~884

Published his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha

Age 40 · Week ~2,080

Founded Santiniketan, an experimental school in rural Bengal

Age 52 · Week ~2,704

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali

Age 54 · Week ~2,808

Knighted by King George V, later renounced the knighthood in protest of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

Legacy

Wrote Gitanjali, a collection of spiritual poems that earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature. He also composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.

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