ABSTRACT
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is (or at least was) one of the twentieth-century world celebrities. But being famous, especially world famous, does not necessarily mean being really known and understood. In Tagore's case, his fame outside India (at times turning virtually into a cult) was very often based on wrong (or at best incomplete) ideas about his personality and cultural background, on wrong apprehensions of his identity, so to say.
