(i) In 1880, Rabindranath was called back to India. (ii) He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 for Gitanjali. (ii) He returned home without any qualification of distinction. (iv) He wrote Gitanjali, a collection of Bengali songs of superior quality. (v) Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 into a respectable family at Jorasanko in Kolkata. (vi) At the age of seventeen, in 1878, he reached London to attend school. (vii) He went to school early and wrote his first verse at the age of eight. (viii) The experience had a lasting effect on his later life. (ix) However, he never gave up his habit of writing poetry. (x) He gathered much experience from his stay in London.