© 2022 JETIR November 2022, Volume 9, Issue 11 www.jetir.org (ISSN-2349-5162) JETIR2211525 Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR) www.jetir.org f188 Rabindranath Tagore A Rereading Reddivari Manjula, Assistant Professor Department of Humanities JNTUA College of Engineering, Anantapur-515002. AP (India) reddivarimanjula@gmail.com No other writer of India has attracted the attention of such wide range of readers and critics as Rabindranath Tagore. Nobody has excelled in so many fields or dominated the culture to the extent that Tagore has. None could have better summed up his personality as Dr.Sreenivasa Iyengar, who said, “Tagore was a poet, dramatist, actor, producer; he was a musician and painter; he was an educationist, a practical idealist who turned his dreams into reality at Shantiniketan; he was a reformer, philosopher, prophet; he was a novelist and a short story writer and a critic of life and literature; he even made occasional incursions into nationalist politics, although, he was essentially an internationalist, he was thus many persons, he was a darling of versatility and still he was the same man; he was an integral whole, the Rishi, the Gurudev…. Rabindranath Tagore was born in on May 7 th 1861 at Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta, India. He was the youngest of thirteen surviving offspring of Debendranath and Sharada. His grandfather prince Dwarakanath Tagore (1794-1846) was one of the most cultured personalities in the British Empire to the extent of being a personal intimate friend of Queen Victoria. Tagore’s father Maharshi Debendranath Tagore (1817-1905) was the second head of the Bramha Samaj, gradually taking over leadership and revitalising the movement after the death of Raja Ram Mohan Roy.