22nd Shravan in the Bengali calendar was the death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, the Poet of India. Yet being a poet and a Nobel Laureate was only a fraction of what Tagore was. But Rabindranath was also arguably the greatest Bengali short-story writer, with critics placing some of his work in the company of, and at times even above, that of Chekhov. A true polymath, Tagore took to painting at the age of seventy. This is so even though a large number of scholars, both in India and abroad, have devoted their lives to researching Tagore and continue to do so.