Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti is the birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) – Nobel Laureate - poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright. The Jayanti celebrations are annually held on May 7. In 2024, it is the 163rd birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. Certain Bengal calendars usually mark the day on May 8. He was a freedom fighter, educational reformist through experimental school at Shantiniketan, painter, musician, novelist but it is his poetry that caught the imagination of his country men and world. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali. Homeschooled till the age of 17, Tagore was a child prodigy. He penned his first poem at the age of eight. By the time he turned 16, he had a large poetry collection and few plays to his name. He dropped out of a law school in London as literature excited him more. Tagore brought about several social reforms, especially in the field of education. He started the Visva Bharati