Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright. He is the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Though primarily recognized as a poet, Tagore also published novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas, and thousands of songs. He is perhaps the only litterateur in the world who penned anthems of two countries—India and Bangladesh. He is the founder of Visva-Bharati University, one of India’s premier institutions.