What poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter, was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category and is celebrated throughout East India, including Chitpur where a road is named after its most famous resident?

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Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore, a giant of the arts in East India, championed the movement for self-rule with his poetry. In Chitpur, the old Chitpur Road was renamed Rabindra Sarani in Tagore's honor, since he was its most famous resident.