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YUGA PURUSHA Rabindranath Tagore - The Island
Where the mind is without fear And the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up Into fragments by narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depths of truth … Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, Let my country awake That was not a man ‘for all seasons’ (who are plentiful) but a man for the ages, writing those words in this kali yugaya. Do you hear them? Now? Now, as ever, as everywhere? Fifty years ago, I wrote commentaries on each poem in Gitanjali, from which those lines are taken. They were a kind of ‘crib’, paid for by an early tutory, Atlas Hall, which sort of prepared students for examinations at tertiary level here and in London. One might note that Gitanjali and other works by writers in South Asia (other than those touted by spurious academics as ‘post-modernist’ and ‘post-colonial’, – read ‘pro-colonial’) – have long been sent out of the window of classrooms in this country. The immediate occasion that called for these comments was the presentation of a selection of songs, from Tagore’s extensive body of work, at the Wendt last Monday. It was by the foremost exponent today of robindra sangeeth, Rezwana Chowdhury Bannya of Bangladesh & Santiniketan (yes, that sounds as if Santiniketan is a nation by itself). In a singularly happy namaskar towards each other, it was co-hosted by the High Commissions of Bangladesh & India. The fact that both have adopted Tagore’s songs as their national anthems may be indicative of ‘the breaking down of narrow domestic walls’. ‘The Partition of Bengal’, first attempted by the British over a hundred years ago, failed because the people, Tagore active among them, did not want it. Four decades later they, the Brits again, succeeded in rebuilding that wall though it remains porous. As Sarath Amunugama observed, in a felicitous address in which he referred both to ‘the partition’, and to national anthems, and as is well known here, Ananda Samarakone’s namo, namo matha was inspired by his stay at Santiniketan. In the 1930s to the 1960s the latter connection has vitalised our dancing, singing, ‘music-making’ and our knowledge of theatre. A somewhat hilarious outcome of the latter occurred about ten years ago at the Tower Hall, when Suchitra Mitra, whose name would for the foreseeable future be inextricably associated with robindra-sangeeth, invited our ‘old boys’ of Santiniketan to come up and join her in their school song. Most of them had lost the words and more than ...
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath TagoreFRASAutochrome portrait, 1926Born7 May 1861Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Bengal Presidency, IndiaDied7 August 1941 (aged 80)Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Bengal Presidency, IndiaOther nameBhanusimhaOccupationsPoetnovelistplaywrightessayistcomposerpainterphilosophersocial reformereducationistlinguistgrammarianEraBengal RenaissanceNotable workGitanjaliGhare-BaireBharoto Bhagyo BidhataGoraJana Gana ManaRabindra SangeetAmar Shonar Bangla(other works)MovementContextual ModernismSpouse Mrinalini Devi (m. 1883; died 1902)Children5, including Rathindranath TagoreRelativesTagore familyAwardsNobel Prize in Literature (1913) Rabindranath Tagore singing Tabu Mone RekhoRecorded c. 1930–40Signature Rabindranath Thakur FRAS (Bengali: [roˈbindɾonatʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ];[1] anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861[2] – 7 August 1941[3]), also known by his pseudonym Bhanusimha (Sun Lion) was a Bengali polymath (poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter) of the Bengal Renaissance period.[4][5][6] In 1913, Tagore became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.[7][8] A significant moulder of culture within the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali.[9] Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his elegant prose and magical poetry were widely popular in the Indian subcontinent.[10] He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal",[11][5][6] Tagore was known by the sobriquets Gurudev, Kobiguru, and Biswokobi.[a] A Bengali Brahmin from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore and Bardhaman districts, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old.[13][14] At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics.[15] By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent critic of nationalism,[16] he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advance...
Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti – Celebrating the Legacy of a Literary Genius
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The Enduring Brilliance of Rabindranath Tagore: Poet, Philosopher, and Visionary - Latest Blogs on Technology, Travel, Movies and Photo Gallery
The Universal Genius of Rabindranath ... Tagore. More than just a poet, he was a polymath—a philosopher, composer, dramatist, painter, novelist, and social reformer whose influence permeated ......
