Mystic Experience Inspires Nirjharer Svapnahanga
Tagore has a mystic experience of cosmic unity that inspires his poem “Nirjharer Svapnabhanga” (The Awakening of the Fountain). Read more
Europe Prabasir Patra is Published
Tagore publishes his “Letters on a Sojourn in Europe” in serialized form in the journal Bharaii. His elder family members are not pleased about this series. Read more
Studies in England
On 20 September 1878, when Rabindranath Tagore is seventeen, he is asked to go to England with his brother Satyendranath. His father wants him to become a barrister, so he is enrolled at a public school in Brighton and briefly reads law at University College London. Read more
Kabi Kahini [Tale of a Poet] is published
Rabindranath Tagore’s first collection Kabi Kahini [Tale of a Poet] is published in 1878. Kabi-Kahini is a poetry book written in Bengali when Rabindranath was the age of 16. Read more
“Bhikharini” [The Beggar Woman] Published
Rabindranath starts writing short stories. The first one, published in 1877, is “Bhikharini” [The Beggar Woman]. The story was first published in 1877 in Bharati and was the first short story written in Bengali language. This was also Tagore’s own first short story, and he was 16 years old at the time of its publication. Read more