We know Rabindranath Tagore is a man of literature. We also know he is in one and the same a writer, dramatist, novelist, artist, singer, composer and many others of literary term. But it is not known to all that he is a concerned citizen of the world, a social reformer who wanted to reconstruct his society.

Tagore founded some institutes like Bisva-Bharati, Santinikatan, Srinikatan etc. to make soldier for the future, a soldier who would uphold the society above tyranny, oppression and suppression.

Apart from his spiritual and romantic notion about human soul and the divinity, he began to give voice against the suppression and oppression of colonialism. Though he was a man of exalted position, he did not hesitate to come to the road, join in the movement and lead the movement with bravery, a movement known as “Swadeshi Andolan”.

Being admired and celebrated by the Western, he did not hesitate to flash his negative outlook and overview about them. Tagore has always kept alive his strong faith that at some point the West has to stand face to face with tyranny of the Nation it has created. Again, he says, “So long, as we, out of personal and collective ignorance, cannot treat our countrymen properly like men, so long as our tenants regard their tenants as a mere part of their property, so long as the strong in our country will consider it the eternal law to trample on the weak, the higher castes despise the lower as worse than beasts, even so long we cannot claim gentlemanly treatment from the English as a matter of right, even so long we shall fail to truly waken the English character, even so long will India continue to be defrauded of her due and humiliated”. Thus, he showed the way and hoped for the new morning when man will have his new birth in the freedom of his individuality, form the enveloping vagueness of abstraction.

Tagore was the supporter of Gandhi, but warns of the dangers of Nationalistic thought. Unable to gain ideological support to his views, he retired into relative solitude. He nourished a revolutionary mind. He was awarded by Knighthood by the English ruler but after some time he rejected himself from this award as a revolt against the British; because the British killed 400 innocent civil Indians at Jalianawanbag.

After his journey to Russia, Tagore had changed utterly. The theory of socialism captured him and he came to realize that without revolt or revolution change for good cannot be possible. Thus, in “Russian Letters” we find his socialist view on society.

Although he was not a leftist at all, his outlook towards men and world, world and its surroundings are remarkably socialist. His works are praiseworthy but it is noteworthy that he is a man speaking to the man, for the man. Thus, he surpassed the utmost bound of time and became universal one.