One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put India on the literary map of the world when his Gitanjali was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Myriad-minded, he was a poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, essayist, painter and composer of songs. 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.
Personality (1917) contains six lectures delivered in America during Tagore's second visit there. The essays are a structured exposition of his thoughts on different subjects like 'Art', 'Reason for its Existence', 'Woman' and so on.
