Dwijendranath Tagore

Dwijendranath Tagore was an Indian poet, song composer, philosopher, mathematician, and a pioneer in Bengali shorthand and musical notations. The eldest son of Debendranath Tagore and grandson of Dwarkanath Tagore of the Jorasanko branch of the Tagore family, he was mainly educated at home, but later studied for some time in St. Paul's school and Hindu College of Calcutta (now Kolkata).

He was always close to his next brother Satyendranath (1842-1923), but the two brothers differed considerably . His first contribution to Bengali literature was the Bengali translation of Kalidasa's classical Sanskrit work Meghaduta in 1860, before Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), his younger brother and Nobel Prize-winning poet.

His second great work of poetry was Swapnaprayan, published in 1875; Rabindranath was an adolescent when it was written. He was born on 11 March 1840 in Calcutta, Bengal, British India.