Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a poet, novelist, playwright, painter, philosopher, educationist, freedom fighter and an actor. At the age of twelve, his first poem was published. Tagore wrote Indian National Anthem. He was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 fro ‘Gitanjali’ (a collection of poems). Tagore was the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize. In 1091, Tagore founded a school at Shantiniketan that later became Visva-Bharati University in 1921. He was awarded Knighthood in 1915. But he returned the title in 19919 as a protest against the Jallianwallah Bagh tragedy. He worked as a spokesman for the cause of the freedom of India abroad. He died in 1941.