About Book
My Boyhood Days (Chhelebela, 1940) is Tagore's second memoir of his childhood days, written when he was nearing eighty. He describes, without a trace of self-pity, the spartan life he had to lead under his father's instruction. The sense of wonder and delight in the seemingly commonplace experiences of boyhood helped him become a great poet.
About Author
One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put us on the literary map of the world when his tales were awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. A poet's poet, he is a maker of not only modern Indian literature but also the modern Indian mind and civilization. He was a poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist, painter and composer of songs. Gandhi called him the 'Great sentinel'. His worldwide acclaim as a social, political, religious and aesthetic thinker, innovator in education and a champion of the 'One World' idea makes him a living presence.