GK
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
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Question
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Tulsidas
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Rabindranath Tagore.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gītāñjali, a collection of poetry, the most famous work by Rabindranath Tagore, published in India in 1910. Tagore then translated it into prose poems in English, as Gitanjali: Song Offerings, and it was published in 1912 with an introduction by William Butler Yeats .
Detailed explanation-2: -Also known as ‘Song Offerings’, Rabindranath’s Gitanjali is a collection of poems, originally written in Bengali and later translated into English. It made him win him the Nobel Prize in Literature. His unfathomable pain and unshaken devotion to God are captured in the moving prose verses of Gitanjali.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, for the English translation, Gitanjali:Song Offerings, making him the first non-European to receive this honor. It is part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works. Its central theme is devotion, and its motto is “I am here to sing thee songs” (No. XV).