FLAIR Honours Indians who have been conferred with the prestigious award  Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize, was born on 7 May 1861; the thirteenth son of Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi. His mother died early and he was mostly raised by servants, even educated at home. Although at 17, he was sent to England as Debendranath wanted his son to become a barrister, Tagore was enrolled at a public school in Brighton, East Sussex in 1878 for formal schooling, which he did not complete instead he studied Shakespeare, Religio Medici, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. Tagore was already writing poems since he was 8 years old. At 16, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho (‘Sun Lion’) and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877. He was not only a poet but also a novelist, music ....