An exemplary man full of knowledge spanning different subjects, Rabindranath Tagore was one of the most renowned personalities the annals of Indian history has ever seen. He was a poet, musician, artist and ayurveda-researcher, and not to forget, a Nobel-Prize laureate in Literature.
Bengal Renaissance saw the emergence of a talented erudite's creations - paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs. He founded the Visva-Bharati University, which is currently situated at Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.
Interestingly, his songs were chosen by two nations as their national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla. Apparently, India's beloved singer Lata Mangeshkar had shared a video of the poet himself singing Jana Gana Mana to Bollywood star Anupam Kher, who shared it on his Instagram page.
Do not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to listen the song through the voice of the renowned poet himself!