Renuka Devi was one of Rabindranath’s daughters. She died when she was only thirteen years old. According to Kripalani, Tagore was very attached to Renuka (or Rani, as she was called), who “was a remarkable girl with a will of her own”.[1] In 1901, when Renuka was ten and a half years old, her father married her to a husband she had never met. Read more
Mira Devi (also called Atasi), Rabindranath’s daughter, was born on 12 January 1894. On 6 June 1907, when Mira was thirteen years, she was married to Nagendranath Ganguli (Gangopadhyay). They had a son called Nitindranath (Nitu) (1912- 32), who was Tagore’s only grandson, and a daughter named Nandita, born in 1916. Read more
Rabindranath Tagore’s son Samindranath, called Sami, was, as Dutta and Robinson [1] write, “a beautiful boy who had already shown signs of being the child who would take after his father.” Read more
Rathindranath was born on 27 November 1888. He was Rabindranath’s oldest son (second child) and one of his first students at Shantiniketan. He was an agriculturist, carpenter, architect, writer, painter, teacher of genetics at Visva-Bharati and its first vice-chancellor after it became Central University. Read more
On 25 October 1886, Rabindranath’s first child Madhurilata, called Bela, was born in Kolkata. Kripalani says that she was beautiful and his “most dearly loved daughter.”[1] Tagore said about her: “my eldest daughter Bela… was exceptionally beautiful in body and mind.”[2] Read more