shubhash chandra bose

1. Peace PPT
-Yash Agrawal
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2. Birth
7th May, 1861
Death
7th August, 1941

3. He was born on 7 May, 1861 to
Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi in
the Jorasanko mansion which is the
ancestral home of the Tagore family in
Kolkata (Calcutta). Among his siblings, he
was the youngest. He lost his mother when
he was very young, his father was a
traveller and so, he was mostly raised by
his servants and maids. At a very young
age, he was part of the Bengal renaissance
and his family also took active participation
in it. At the age of 8, he started writing
poems and by the age of sixteen, he also
started composing artworks and started
publishing his poems under the
pseudonym Bhanusimha. In 1877 he wrote
the short story 'Bhikharini' and in 1882 the
collection of poems 'Sandhya Sangit'.

4. At the age of 16, he published his first
substantial poetry and wrote his first book
of short stories and dramas. His father wanted
him to become a Barrister and he was sent to
England for this reason.
In 1879, he enrolled at University College,
London, but was called back by his father to
return to India in 1880.

5. Marriage
 He read law at University College,
London, but left his college to explore
Shakespeare and more. He was called by
his father and returned degreeless to
Bengal in 1880.
 On 9th December, 1883, he married
Mrinalini Devi; They had five children,
two of whom died before reaching
adulthood.
 In 1890, Tagore began managing his
family’s vast estates in Shilaidaha, a
region now in Bangladesh.

6. Fame International Recognition
• In 1890, while on a visit to his ancestral estate
in Shelaidaha, his collection of poems, Manasi,
was released. The period between 1891 and 1895
proved to be fruitful during which, he authored a
massive three volume collection of short stories,
Galpaguchchha.
• In 1901, he moved to Shantiniketan, where he
composed Naivedya, published in 1901 and
Kheya, published in 1906. By then, several of
his works were published and he had gained
immensely popularity among Bengali readers.
• In 1912, he went to England and took a sheaf of
his translated works with him. There he
introduced his works to some of the prominent
writers of that era, including William Butler
Yeats, Ezra Pound, Robert Bridges, Ernest Rhys,
and Thomas Sturge Moore.

7. Awards and achievements
• For his momentous and revolutionary literary
works, Tagore was honoured with the Nobel Prize
in Literature on 14 November 1913.
• He was also conferred knighthood in 1915, which
he renounced in 1919 after the Jallianwallah Bagh
carnage.
• In 1940, Oxford University awarded him with a
Doctorate of Literature in a special ceremony
arranged at Shantiniketan.

8. Learnings
◦ If you have hope, you have a chance to win in any situation. Winners are
always saying, “Never lose hope.”
◦ If you don’t take the first step, you will not reach the final destination.

9. THANK YOU