Tagore`s death anniversary observed

DHAKA, Aug 6: The 72nd death anniversary of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore was observed on the 22nd Sraban on Tuesday.

Different social and cultural organisations chalked out elaborate programmes to mark the day.
Rabindranath was a rare man of multifarious merits. He was a novelist, dramatist, artiste, essayist, music composer, philosopher, academic, linguist and social reformer.

 

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913 for his English version of Gitanjali.

 

Rabindranath had been writing poetry since he was eight years old. At the age of 16, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877.

 

He modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms. Gitanjali, Gora, and Ghare-Baire are his best-known works.

 

His verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and contemplation.

 

He was perhaps the only litterateur who penned anthems of two countries--Jana Gana Mana of India and Amar Sonar Bangla of Bangladesh.

 

Rabindranath was born in the Jorasanko mansion in Kolkata. His ancestral home was in Pithabhog village under Rupsha upazila of Khulna, then part of British India, now Bangladesh.