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Synopsis Rabindra Nath Tagore achieved international fame on account of his superb academic qualities of a poet. In his writings, speeches and correspondence with learned persons, he showed his remarkable scholarly worth while dealing with socio-economic, cultural, educational and political problems. He wrote about the common man and his theme were simple in language to be easily understood by one and all. The foundation of Santiniketan in the rural surroundings and its international academic stature greatly enhanced Tagore’s prestige all over the globe. The theme has been dealt with a few chapters, viz, his social, economic and political thought which he spelt out in his writings, as an educationist par excellence, poet and the seer, quest for nature and beauty, Gitanjali of international fame, essays in history and brief chronology on the poet. Indeed the poet engaged himself till the last day of his life, His personality and academic worth attracted people from our sub-continent and abroad.