Arts

Once again the stage was set, the harmonium was played, the sympathetic strings of the sitar were plucked and every heart hummed the tunes of tradition as May 9 2010 recorded the 150 Birth Anniversary of the legendary poet Rabindranath Tagore. As a poet, writer, painter, song writer, orator, composer, philosopher the legend has given so much to the identity of a Bengali person. Born on 1861 in Jorasanko in the palatial ancestral house of the illustrious Tagore family Rabindranath was the youngest son of father Devendranath Tagore and mother Sarada Devi. From his childhood, Tagore always had an aversion ...