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Modern Indian History UPPSC 2003 GS-I
Question

Rabindranath Tagore, the great poet, emerged as a great painter when his age was about

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option D: Seventy years

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Seventy years”.
Tagore began painting at the age of 63. In fact, he himself called his art an "affair in the old age".

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