Rabindranath Tagore is a historical figure incorporated into the novel, Tagore is the premier literary, artistic, and musical figure in Eastern India or Bengal from the end of the British Raj period until his death in 1961. Tagore begins writing poetry and stories in his youth, joins the independence movement, founds a university, and writes the Indian national anthem. His writings, poems, short stories, and novels, revolutionize Bengali art. His style of oil painting resembles N. C. Wyeth.