My Reminiscences (Edition1st)

The autobiographical sketches painted in this book by Rabindranatha Tagore, a great thinker and poet from India, gives us windows into his childhood, his youth, and his blossoming as a writer and as a lyricist. He stresses that this is not an autobiography, but more like a palimpsest of memories: glimmers and shadows that illustrate his artistic development, not a strict record of his life. Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861-7 August 1941) was a Bengali short-atory writer, porr, musician, composer, playwright, essayist and painter from India when was instrumental in transforming Indian art, especially Bengali literature and music, by introducing contextual modernian and new verses and prose. Both his proac and poetry were on varied topics and were considered to he magical and spiritnal as visible in surse u Chin nutnl worka such as Gitanjali, Gera and Ghore Baire, Referred to as tha: 'Bard of Bengal"", bis compusitions were chosen as national anthems by Italia and Bangladesh while the Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work. He became the first non. European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.