CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Israel has named a street in Tel Aviv after celebrated Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore as a tribute on his 159th birthday. Tagore, in 1913 won the Nobel prize in literature and till now, he is the only poet from India to have done so.

Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1878 and 1932, Tagore set foot in more than thirty countries on five continents.

Detailed explanation-3: -However, he only received two awards and honours. In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, for the translated version of his Gitanjali. Thereafter, in 1915, he was knighted by King George V. However, he returned the knighthood, in 1919, as a protest against the 1919 Jallianwalabagh massacre.

Detailed explanation-4: -He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse” of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Detailed explanation-5: -Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) is best known as a poet, and in 1913 was the first non-European writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.