Jyotirindranath Tagore ( bn, জ্যোতিরিন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 4 May 1849 – 4 March 1925) was a playwright, a musician, an editor and a painter.
He played a major role in the flowering of the talents of his younger brother, the first non-European
Nobel Prize
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winner,
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
.
[Bandopadhyay, Hiranmay, ''Thakurbarir Katha'', , pp. 106-113, Sishu Sahitya Sansad.]
Works
* Historical plays -''Purubikram'' (1874), ''Sarojini'' (1875), ''Ashrumati'' (Woman in tears, 1879), ''Swapnamayi'' (Lady of Dream, 1882).
* Satirical plays - ''Kinchit Jalajog'' (Some Refreshments, 1873), ''Eman Karma Ar Korbo Na'' (I will never do such a thing again 1877), ''Hathath Nabab'' (Suddenly a Ruler, 1884), ''Alik Babu'' (Strange Man, 1900).
* Translations -
Kalidas's ''
Abhijñānaśākuntalam
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'' (The Recognition of Shakuntala) and ''Malati Madhava'' (Malati and Madhava); Sudrak's ''Mrichhatika'' (Little Clay Cart);
Marcus Aurelius
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’ ''
Meditations
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'',
Shakespeare's
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''
Julius Caesar
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Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s ''
Gita Rahasya
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''.
References
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1925 deaths
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