We remember Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore who was born on 7 May 1861 in Kolkata. Rabindranath Tagore was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj. Rabindranath exposed British rule by chronicling all his adversities with British imperialism through poetry and literary works. Tagore wanted the struggle against British rule to be germinated from the grassroots of society rather than being confined to an elite section. During the partition of Bengal in 1905, Rabindranath provided active leadership to the Swadeshi Movement advocating a boycott of British goods and promotion of indigenous products. Rabindranath Tagore wrote the song ‘Banglar Mati Banglar Jol’ to unite the Bengali population. He also wrote the song ‘Amar Shonar Bangla’ which was later adopted as the national anthem of Bangladesh. Gurudev is also the writer of our national anthem Jan Man Gan, which he wrote in 1911 to be sung at the congress session in Kolkata. Rabindranath Tagore brought glory to the country when he became the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for our country in 1913 for his extraordinary work Geetanjali. In 1915 he was awarded a knighthood by the British crown, which he denounced after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre as a sign of protest. In his repudiation letter to Viceroy Lord Chelmsford, Rabindranath wrote “The time has come when badges of honor make our shame glaring in the incongruous context of humiliation, and I for my part wish to stand, shorn of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen, who, for their so-called insignificance, are liable to suffer degradation not fit for human beings.” The basic thrust of Tagore’s approach to India’s nationhood and freedom from British rule was his emphasis on social reform and the removal of the gross inequities that India’s society suffered from. Reforming education, therefore, became a cornerstone of his mission for society and nation-building. To this end, Gurudev Rabindranath established visva bharati university at Santiniketan in 1921. The noble soul breathed his last on 7 August 1941 at Kolkata. AIR news pays tribute to the great noble soul.