Along with the whole world, Tripura is also celebrating ‘Pochise Baishak’, the birth anniversary of iconic poet and playwright Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
This year is the 162nd birth anniversary of his.
Songs, dances, recitations and cultural programmes were organized across the state on Tuesday to mark the celebrations.
The celebration started with paying floral tribute to the statue of Tagore at the Rabindra Kanon park followed by cultural programmed organized by the state government’s ICA department and in which Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha also participated.
Various cultural tropes performed songs, recitation, dance etc all creations of Tagore.
Renowned socio-cultural organization ‘Chandanir’ also performed at the open auditorium of Rabindra Centenary Hall where young artistes in concert of Tagore’s songs performed dances and recitation from his works.
Hundreds of Tagore admirers thronged the venue to pay tribute to the world poet who had a close relation with the state, the Kings of Tripura and had visited the state seven times.
- A large number of people who gathered at the programme where enthralled with rendition of Tagore’s songs and dance being performed on his songs.
On this day Tagore fans are in high spirits and Agartala is highly influenced and practices Rabindranath creation which are inspiration to human heart.
Meantime, Tagore had composed several songs and novels during his visit to the state and hence his birthday is celebrated with full devotion and is very special.
Tagore had a close relation with the princely state of Tripura and he visited the state as many as seven times between 1899 and 1926.
Tripura had a special place in Tagore’s he’s as in many of his songs and settings of his novels the then princely state’s history as the theme. Some of these are “Bisharjan”, “Rajarshi” and “Mukut.”
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath. He was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, educationist, social reformer, nationalist, business-manager and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Tagore was the first non-European English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for ‘Gitanjali’ (an offering of songs) in 1913.
