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Question Numbers: 61-65Read the following passage.Rabindranath Tagore’s emergence as an ‘Educator’ was completely a matter of personal development, a necessary outcome of the entire course of his life and experience. He was born into a house, which had been a center for numerous ethnic and social movements and a nucleus of all sorts of progressive ideas and actions. Tagore absorbed all the rich and varied elements of eastern and western culture that made him a cosmopolitan. Tagore found his days in traditional school wasteful and oppressive. He had acquired more knowledge by self-education that gave shape and direction to his numerous powers and potentialities. He evolved as an educater par excellence. Tagore was at home in humanities as well as sciences; besides having a strong poetic sense, an in-depth intuition with philosophy, and profound relation with music and arts. The tangible embodiment of this realization was Santiniketan. It was founded on 21st December 1901 at the land purchased by his father Maharshi Debendranath to establish a place for meditation. Initially, there were five students, ‘all boys and all Bengalis’, four of them from Calcutta and the fifth the founder’s son. Rabindranath Tagore himself described Santiniketan as his ‘tangible poem’, as the boat, the ‘golden boat’ ‘sonar tori’ carried the best cargo of his life. In a letter to the Prince of Tripura, the poet educator wrote ‘I wish to keep my students away from all the luxuries of European life and any blind infatuation with Europe and thus lead them in the ways of sacred and unsullied Indian tradition of poverty.' The .world responded and honoured him not merely as a poet, but as a Poet Educator, as Gurudeva!Now answer the following questions choosing the right option.
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Tagore turned cosmopolitan ______
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Concept:Understanding the meaning of 'cosmopolitan' in the context of Rabindranath Tagore's life and philosophy.Explanation:The term 'cosmopolitan' means someone who is at home in all parts of the world or someone who feels that all people are part of one great community. Rabindranath Tagore was a great poet and a deep thinker. He was not limited by any single culture or tradition. Instead, he embraced and learned from various cultures, both from the East and the West. This broad understanding and acceptance of different cultural influences made him a cosmopolitan figure. The statement "Tagore turned cosmopolitan" implies that his exposure to and assimilation of diverse cultural elements led him to this state. Therefore, the reason he became cosmopolitan is that he absorbed the rich traditions and ideas from both Western and Eastern civilizations.Answer:As he absorbed western and eastern culture.
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