Success comes when we do our duty wholeheartedly without thinking a fraction about the result-that’s what I have learnt while reading Tagore’s biography. During first 51 years of his life the success he achieved was least. People of outside Kolkata (then Calcutta) hardly heard his name.
On his second visit to England in 1912, he started translating some of his poetry work, Gitanjali, in English. His son was accompanied by him. Unfortunately, he left his father’s briefcase, which contained a notebook of hand written translation, in the London subway. But an honest person returned it to him on the very next day. When they were published in 1912, by the initiative of W.B Yeats, the whole world embraced him. For the first time world enjoyed the mystical and sentimental beauty of Indian culture. Within a year he got Nobel Prize. He was the first non-westerner who was so much adorned and honored. He never anticipated his work would be so adorable and far reaching.
Today we know Rabindranath Tagore as the most successful icon but anyone of us hardly realizes his years of struggle behind it; after spending 51 years of life in anonymity, he got world recognition. “Success comes to those who least care for it”
Yours,
Mousumi
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