KIDS QUIZ
FAMOUS AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS
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: -We must remember that Gitanjali was written in the context of British India. When the protest against the British Govt flowed both in violent & nonviolent ways, the poet prayed toBharatvidhata to awaken his countrymen into the heaven of wisdom & work. He also prayed for the removal of caste discrimination.
Detailed explanation-3: -Geetanjali, meaning “song-offerings” in Bengali, is a collection of poetry by Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore. This phrase has evolved to mean a form of prayer to God. ‘Geetanjali’ also implies a collection of songs in Hindi.