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Tagore Music Group of Greater Washington DC Rabindranath Tagore the intellectual genius was born in Kolkata during the summer month of May 1861 into a highly cultured talented affluent and innovative family wellknown as the Jorasanko Thakur Paribar. In 1913 he became the first nonEuropean as well as the first lyricist to receive the prestigious Nobel prize for Literature for his English version of Geetanjali Song Offerings a book of lyrics and verses. His verses are as profoundly sensitive philosophical and kaleidoscopic as they are beautiful fresh eloquent magical and elegant. Though taught mainly at home by tutors Tagore became a polymath.