Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore [Paperback]

Gist:
Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali, originally published in Bengali on August 14, 1910, contained 157 poems. However, when Tagore translated it into English, he condensed it to 103 poems by selecting 53 from the original Gitanjali and incorporating 50 poems from nine other works, including Achalayatan, Naibedya, Kheya, and Gitimalya. The English version, meaning “an offering of songs,” was first published in November 1912 by the India Society of London. The collection gained worldwide fame, and in 1913, Tagore became the first non-European and the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

About the Author:
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath known for reshaping Indian music and literature. A poet, author, playwright, musician, and painter, he was the first Indian Nobel laureate. Though knighted by the British, he later renounced the title in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.