Rabindranath Tagore was a poet, writer, scriptwriter, songwriter, scholar, philanthropist, and artist from Bengal. Tagore utilized Contextual Modernism to transform Bengali music, literature, and art. He is renowned across the world for his collection of poems, ‘Gitanjali’, which got him the Nobel Prize in 1913. Tagore's evocative songs were considered spiritual and enigmatic, but his "elegant prose and magical poetry" are relatively unknown outside of Bengal. He was a Royal Asiatic Society fellow. Tagore, known as "the Bard of Bengal," also went by the alias Gurudev, Kabiguru, and Biswakabi. His major contributions were in the fields of drama, literature, poetry, music, and art. Tagore was particularly known for his work in influencing Indian poetry, but he also wrote novels, articles, short stories, travel books, dramas, and thousands of songs. Tagore's short stories are perhaps the most well-known of his works; he is known for creating the Bengali-language version of the genre. His works are often praised for their percussive, hopeful, and poetic supremacy.

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