When was Jana Gana Mana written?
The National Anthem of India is entitled ‘Jana Gana Mana’. The song was originally composed in Bengali by India’s first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on December 11, 1911.
When was Jana Gana Mana sung for the first time by the public?
Composed by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Jana Gana Mana was first sung on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress (INC). The session was held in Bharat Sabha, a single-storied structure on Bow Bazar Street in the Kolkata district.
Who sang Jana Gana Mana for the first time in public?
It was performed for the first time by Tagore’s niece, Sarala Devi Chowdhurani, and a few other school students performed the anthem in front of notable pre-independence leaders, including then-President Bishan Narayan Dhar, Ambika Charan Mazumder, and Bhupendra Nath Bose.
When was Rabindranath Tagore awarded the Nobel Prize?
The 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) “because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.” Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for his book Gitanjali (1912), which he translated from Bengali into English.
When did Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore die?
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore died on August 7, 1941, at the age of 80.
Note (credits): Information was collected from various websites on the Internet.