Tagore and science: A critical review

Tagore is one of the most important figures that has dominated the Indian imagination for almost the whole century. The first Nobel laureate of Asia was not only a writer, but a philosopher, educationist and a precursor of scientific temper in India. He was the man who had the guts of criticizing Gandhi for being unscientific. Tagore's convictions flowed fro his training in western liberal traditions like Enlightenment and Transcendentalism. He was impressed by Darwin, but like Darwin he was not a precursor of an atheistic philosophy of life, rather he believed deeply in God. The current paper is a study of Tagore and his beliefs.