Rabindranath Tagore is the largest Indian writer and poet, publicist and philosopher, public figure and educator. As Jawaharlal Nehru writes in his book “The Discovery of India,” he is “the great humanist of India and, together with Gandhi, the most outstanding and influential personality in India in the first half of the 20th century.” The entire complexity of Indian social life was most vividly reflected in the novel “The Mountain.” Tagore wrote the novel based on the experience of his social activities, put into it a number of ideas that the writer had developed by 1907 and developed by him in a number of journalistic articles of this period (for example, “Disease and Medicine”). In “Grief” he focuses on social problems , ideological quest.