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The year 2001 was the 150 th birth anniversary of our first Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7 th May 1861. He though has given a number of classic contribution to the Bangla and English literature but his best-known novel Gitanjali is always remembered because of its highly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verses. In the year 1913, he was awarded the Nobel prize, then he was the first Non-European Nobel laureate. His poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial and was highly garnered and appraised in the western countries. But many of his elegant prose and poems remain unknown to the rest of world, outside Bengal. His Novels, stories, dance and dramas spoke of politics and society of that time. Some of his best-known works known to the world are Gitanjali, Gora and Ghare Baire. Rabindranath Tagore’s grandfather Dwarakanath Tagore was among the founders of Aadi Dharm. His son Debendranath Tagore and the father of Rabindranath Tago