By Team Aakash Byju's

10 Interesting Facts About Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was frequently referred to as Gurudev by the people. He was also known as Kabiguru and Biswakabi.

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He received a knighthood in 1915, but on May 31, 1919, he renounced it in protest over the Punjabi city of Amritsar's Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre.

Following the theft of his original Nobel Prize, the Swadeshi Academy presented him with gold and silver medals in its place.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he used contextual modernism to transform Indian art and Bengali literature and music.

Rabindranath was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and was referred to as “The Bard of Bengal.”

When he was eight years old, Tagore began to write poetry. He published his first lengthy poetry at the age of 16 under the pen name Bhnusiha.

On Pachishe Baishakh, the Bengali community celebrates Tagore's birth anniversary.

Tagore shared a good bond with Albert Einstein and only a few people were aware of it.

On the 150th anniversary of Tagore's birth, a bronze statue of Tagore was unveiled in Gordon Square, London, in 2011.

Rabindranath Tagore was the first one to give Gandhi the title of Mahatma.