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%u2022In 1910, Tagore wrote Gitanjali. During a long voyage to England in 1912, he translated these poems into English.%u2022In 1913, Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the same year, the University of Calcutta (now Kolkata) conferred on him the honorary degree of D. Lit.%u2022In 1915, Rabindranath Tagore was knighted, but he renounced this honour in 1919 in protest against the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh.%u2022Rabindranath Tagore wrote the verse Jana Gana Mana%u2026 that celebrated India's independence as our national anthem.%u2022Bangladesh also adopted one of his poems Amar Sonar Banglaas its national anthem.%u2022At the age of seventy, Tagore took up painting. He was also a composer and wrote music for hundreds of his poems. The songs of Tagore are known as Rabindra Sangeet.%u2022Rabindranath Tagore spent the last four years of his life in constant pain. He died on 7 August 1941 in the same mansion where he was brought up.67