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RABINDRANATH TAGORE
• He was born on 7 May 1861 at Jorasanko, in Kolkata.
• He won NobelPrize for Literature.
• He wrote Gitanjali, a collection of poems.
• He founded a school at Shantiniketan, in West Bengal. It is now known as
the VisvaBhartiUniversity.
• The nationalanthem of India- Jana Gana Mana was written by him.
MAHATMA GANDHI
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869, in
Porbandar, in Gujarat.

