By HEESUN KOH - July 22 2024
Rabindranath Tagore(1861 –1941)
Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, “Song offering”) is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian & the only Indian to receive this honor. The English version of Gitanjali or Song Offerings/Singing Angel is a collection of 103 English prose poems, which are Tagore’s own English translations of his Bengali poems, and was first published in November 1912 by the India Society in London. It contained translations of 53 poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50 other poems from his other works such as “Gitimalya -a bouquet of songs,” “Naivedya-offering,” “Kheya-the boat,