Snippets of Information
Personalities - Rabindranath Tagore
(poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter)
* 17 Sep 2023
The song "Meenakshi me mudam dehi" penned by Dikshitar in ragam Kalyani
and adi talam was sung to Rabindranath Tagore by Savitri, a Carnatic
music student. The poet had composed his lyrics "Basanti hey bhubono Mohini" based on the Dikshitar's bhajan.
Source: The 29th OMC Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra Award Festival by Tapati Chowdhurie, narthaki.com, 18 Sep 2023
* 6 Jun 2023
Pochishe Boishakh on May 9 - the day to celebrate Rabindranath Tagore, the day to sing his timeless "He Nutan".
On Pochishe Boishakh every year, Tagore’s followers and admirers world over mark the day singing the song that celebrates life.
Source: thestatesman.com
The song that he had composed for his own birthday forty-two years back
when he was thirty-eight years old, was - 'Bhoy Hote Tabo Abhoy-maajhe
Nutano Janomo Daao Hey ...'. For the same purpose he had created his
last song, three months prior to his death. He had written a poem
'Pnochishe Boishakh' for the collection 'Purabi' at the age of sixty-two
on 8th May, 1922. The last stanza of this long poem was altered to
recreate this song.
Source: geetabitan.com
* 22 Jan 2022
Rabindranath Tagore is the only known person who has written the
national anthems for three countries. He wrote 'Jana Gana Mana', the
national anthem for India, 'Amar Sonar Bangla', the national anthem for
Bangladesh and 'Nama Nama Sri Lanka Mata', in Bengali, for Sri Lanka.
Source: indiatoday.in
* 20 Jan 2022
A multifaceted personality, Tagore began writing poetry when he was only
eight years old and he was only 16 when he released his first
collection of poems under the pseudonym 'Bhanusimha'.
Source: indiatoday.in
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