Jyotirindranath Tagore
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Jyotirindranath Tagore (; 4 May 1849 – 4 March 1925) was a
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playwright, musician, editor, and painter. He played a major role in the flowering of the talents of his younger brother, the first non-European
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Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...
.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 Rich, 1884), ''Alik Babu'' (Strange Man, 1900). * Translations: Kalidas's ''
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’s '' Gita Rahasya''.


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