The 70th genocide anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore is being celebrated Saturday, a 22nd of a Bengali month of Shraban, with a flurry of flashbacks upon a abounding well read reason up travelling over 60 years.
Tagore dominates a Bangla well read stage with excess of works: over 10,000 poems, scarcely dual dozen plays as good as playlets, twelve novels, over 100 reduced stories, some-more than 6,000 songs as good as a mass of communication functions upon literary, social, religious, domestic as good as alternative topics.
Add to these his English translations, paintings, travels as good as lecture-tours in Asia, America, as good as Europe, as good as his activities as an educationist, as a amicable as good as eremite reformer, as good as as a politician.
Tagore was a usually litterateur who penned anthems of 3 nations – Amar Sonar Bangla, a Bangladeshi inhabitant anthem, Jana Gana Mana, a Indian inhabitant anthem, as good as Namo Namo Matha, a Sri Lankan inhabitant anthem.
As writer of Gitanjali with a “profoundly sensitive, uninformed as good as pleasing verses”, he was a initial non-European as good as a initial Bengali-speaking chairman to be awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
His communication in interpretation was noticed as spiritual, as good as this together with his hypnotizing persona gave him a prophet-like aura in a West. His “elegant communication as good as enchanting poetry” still sojourn mostly different outward a end of Bengal.
Tagore completed serve note when he laid open a British Raj as good as upheld Indian independence. His efforts continue in his immeasurable criterion as good as in a establishment he founded, Visva-Bharati University.
Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning firm exemplary forms. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, as good as essays spoke to domestic as good as personal topics. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), as good as Ghare-Baire (The Home as good as a World) have been his best-known works, as good as his verses, reduced stories, as good as novels were acclaimed for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, as good as contemplation.
The youngest of thirteen flourishing children, Tagore was innate in a Jorasanko palace in Kolkata of relatives Debendranath Tagore (1817-1905) as good as Sarada Devi (1830-1875). His genealogical home was in Pithabhog encampment underneath Rupsha upazila of Khulna, afterwards partial of British India; right away Bangladesh.
Only hours prior to his genocide upon Aug 6, 1941 (Sraban twenty-two in Bangla calendar), a producer commanded his final poem.
Different supervision as good as non-government informative organisations have chalked out special programmes to symbol a occasion.
Shilpakala Academy has organised a contention as good as informative duty during 10 am. Director-General of a academy Liakat Ali Lucky will be benefaction during a duty as a arch guest.
Bangla Academy will reason a piece for a single chairman harangue as good as informative duty in a convention room during eleven am upon Aug 7. Tagore consultant Professor Karunamoy Gowsami will broach a harangue patrician `Real reason up in Rabindranath`s mystic drama`.
Director-General of Bangla Academy Shamsuzzaman Khan will broach a acquire address, whilst Academy Chairman National Professor Kabir Chowdhury will regulate over a function