Today is 25th Baisakh according to the Bengali calendar. The birthday of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. Not just a Nobel Laureate or a poet whose compositions hv bn adopted by India,Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as National Anthem; but a poet of extraordinary profundity. Pranam,Pranam
Facts not widely known: Gurudev’s elder brother Satyendranath was the first Indian in the ICS,allotted to Bombay Presidency. In the house of a friend of his at Bombay the poet met the Maharashtrian girl,Anna Tarkhade. The poet’s first love. He was 17 then. Anna died prematurely.
Satyendranath’s wife Gyanadanandinee imported the Gujarati style of draping a saree and made it popular among Bengali women.
That India’s National Anthem and Bangladesh’s ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’ were composed by Tagore is fairly well known. But Sri Lanka’s anthem
That India’s National Anthem and Bangladesh’s ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’ were composed by Tagore is fairly well known. But Sri Lanka’s anthem
“Nami Namo Namo Sri Lanka Matha” was composed by Ananda Samarakoon,a Sri Lankan disciple of Tagore at Santiniketan with music inspired by the poet.
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