First Literary Criticism
Rabindranath Tagore receives his first literary criticism on a book of Bengali poems, entitled ‘Bhuban Mohini Pratibha”, which is published in Jnanankur.
First acting role
In 1877 Rabindranath Tagore acts on stage for the first time. He plays the principal role of a comedy written by his brother Jyotirindranath. He plays Valmiki in Valmii Pratibha. Read more
Ahmedabad and Bombay
In 1877 and 1878 Rabindranath Tagore spends eighteen months in Ahmedabad and Bombay, where he studies English and lives as ward of his elder brother Satyendranath. Read more
Verses Published as Bhanu Singha
Tagore mentioned Bhanusingha Thakur in several of his writings, describing him as an “ancient Vaishnav saint”. But he would express his inability to share more details about him — which he once sarcastically blamed on the “absence of documented Indian history”, an issue that he felt strongly about. Read more
Secret Society
Rabindranath Tagore joins a short-lived Secret Society, supposed to have been modelled after Mazzini’s Carbonari. The Carbonari (lit. ’charcoal makers’) was an informal network of secret revolutionary societies active in Italy from about 1800 to 1831. Read more