Rabisarani

Rabindranath goes to the 11th Hindu Mela, and recites a poem satirizing the Delhi Darbar held by Lord Lytton on 1st January to proclaim Queen Victoria the Empress of India.

Rabindranath meets Nabinchandra Sen (poet and writer) and Akshaychandra Sarkar (poet, editor, literary critic).

A portion of the Gitikabya (ode) Phulabala gets published in theChaitra issue of Aryadarshan magazine. The rest of it is published a couple of years later in Bharati magazine. The entire volume was published in May 1884 in the anthology Shaishab Sangeet, and is currently found in part 1 of Achalita Sangraha of Rabindra Rachanabali.

Rabindranath makes his first stage appearance in the main role of Alikbabu in Jyotirindranath's play Emon Karma Karba Na Ar, performed at Jorasanko Thakur Bari (Tagore House).

Rabindranath's first literary criticism of books of Bengali poems titled Bhubanmohini Pratibha by Nabinchandra Mukhopadhyay, Abasar-Sarojini by Rajkrishna Roy, and Duhkhasangini by Harishchandra Niyogi appears in Jnanankur.
A few poems under the title Pralap are published in Pratibimba.

Bharati, a new Bengali monthly magazine, is started under the editorship of Dwijendranath Tagore, Rabi's (Rabindranath's childhood nickname) eldest brother.

Rabindranath contributes three pieces in the first issue of Bharati –
i) a criticism of Michael Madhusudan Dutta's epic Meghnadbadh Kavya,
ii) first three chapters of his long story Bhikharini
iii) A poem Bharati.

Rabi (Rabindranath's childhood nickname) accompanies Jyotirindranath and Kadambari to a garden-house (near Serampore) located on the bank of river Ganga.

Rabindranath composes the poem Shaishab Sangit while returning from the Serampore garden house by boat.

After his return to Jorasanko, Rabindranath starts composing his long poem Kabikahini.

Bhanusinha Thakurer Padavali is serialized in Bharati magazine.

Rabindranath's first novel Karuna (unfinished) gets published in the Aswin issue of Bharati magazine.