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May that nation awaken the place Rabindranath’s language, Bengali, receives respect, dignity, and the love of all residents, says Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a submit
Published – August 08, 2025 04:13 pm IST – Kolkata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: ANI
She additionally hoped that folks would get up in an India the place “Rabindranath’s language, Bengali, receives respect, dignity, and the love of all citizens”.
“I supply my reverence on the toes of the world poet Rabindranath Tagore. He resides in our hearts in each residing second. He is the poet of our soul, and I invoke him at present from the depths of my coronary heart. He is our guardian and our guiding gentle,” Ms. Banerjee posted on X.
Ms. Banerjee made her feedback on a day that marks Tagore’s 84th demise anniversary, which, in line with the Bengali calendar, falls on the twenty second day of Shravan.
In Frames | Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s magic
This is an undated photograph of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet, author and thinker, in Calcutta, India. Tagore was born in Calcutta in 1861 and was the primary Asian to obtain the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913. He was knighted in 1915, however denounced the honour in 1919 to protest towards British coverage in Punjab. He died on Aug. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
In this July 12, 1930 file photograph, Rabindranath Tagore is proven whereas in Berlin, Germany. In 1913, Tagore grew to become the primary non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy described as “his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse.” Tagore performed a pivotal position in popularising Indian tradition within the West by means of such works as “Gitanjali: Song Offerings.” (AP Photo, File)
An image of the poet Young Rabindranath Tagore taken together with his spouse, Shrimati Mrinalini Devi. (Published in The Hindu on May 01, 2011) Photo: The Hindu Archives
A portrait of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore’s poems and prose are laced with a deep sensitivity to the human situation and its relationship with nature. The years of him residing in East Bengal close to the Padma River, within the Nineties, when he went to handle his household’s property in Shilaidaha would deliver to sharp focus notes of affection and loss, cities and villages, loss and longing, nature and supernatural, innocence and childhood. . He later known as this era “the most efficient interval of my literary life … when, beneath the shelter of obscurity, I loved the best freedom my life has ever recognized.”
A photograph of Sir Rabindranath Tagore photographed in Santinekatan, West Bengal. He named the college Visva-Bharati, laying the muse stone of the college on December 24, 1918.
People’s reception in honour of Rabindranath Tagore at 99, Gower road, London in 1931.
Dr. Rabindranath Tagore, when in Berlin, paid a go to to Professor Albert Einstein in his cottage at Caputh close to Berlin, the place the 2 world well-known males had an gratifying time. (Pd. in The Hindu Illustrated Weekly dated 24/08/1930 Pg.09)
An undated image of Rabindranath Tagore as seen with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose’s first interplay with Tagore occurred in 1914, when he was a scholar of Presidency College, Calcutta, and visited Santiniketan with a few of his fellow college students. Tagore and Bose held discussions on artwork, beliefs of nation state and philosophy. In a letter dated May 1939, Tagore famously wrote to Bose: “Subhas Chandra, I’m a Bengali poet. I hail you because the Deshnayak or the chief of the nation on behalf of Bengal…Bengal is not going to die after being suffering from future – we’d like you to boost this hope in the entire Nation.”
A attribute portrait of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore gained the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his lyrical compendium titled Gītāñjali, his most well-known work. Gītāñjali is a mystical exploration of religion, information, human situation and civilisation. In the introduction to Gītāñjali, W.B. Yeats wrote: “I’ve carried the manuscript of those translations with me for days, studying it in railway trains, or on the highest of omnibuses and in eating places, and I’ve usually needed to shut it lest some stranger would see how a lot it moved me.”“I’ve carried the manuscript of those translations with me for days, studying it in railway trains, or on the highest of omnibuses and in eating places, and I’ve usually needed to shut it lest some stranger would see how a lot it moved me.”
Two of the grasp minds of recent India, Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru, engaged in deep dialog on November 4, 1936 on the sylvan retreat of the poet at Bolpur. (Pd. in The Hindu dated 9/11/1936).
Photo of Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore literary and ideological attain positioned him within the firm of visionaries and intellectuals — together with W.B. Yeats, Einstein, French author and Nobel Laureate Romain Rolland. His correspondence with Rolland, which transcends nations and languages, have been documented in 2018 publication. Rolland wrote in his diary that Tagore’s lectures have been a “turning level within the historical past of mankind” and described the poet/thinker as a “burning flame of pleasure, which is at all times shrouded in a fog of melancholy within the West”.
Dr. Rabindranath Tagore as an artist, standing beside certainly one of his work on the 56th Street Galleries, New York (23.05.1937) (Frontline dated Jan.10-23,1987)
Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba at a reception given by Poet Rabindranath Tagore on the mango grove in Shantiniketan throughout their go to on February 17, 1940. Gandhiji was on a three-day go to to Shantiniketan on February 17, 1940.
Gandhiji with Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore at Viswabharati, in Santiniketan, the renounced Centre of Culture and Learning in February 1940 the place Mahathma Gandhi spent three gratifying days with the poet. Gandhiji was on a three-day go to to Shantiniketan on February 17, 1940.
Sir Maurice Gwyer, Dr. Rabindranath Tagore, Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan popping out from Sinha Sadan, Santiniketan after the Oxford University Convocation on August 7, 1940.
Rabindranath Tagore died on August 7, 1941. Grief has continued to “weave a protracted garland of tears”, he wrote in “My Reminiscences”, referring the short succession of deaths of his spouse and youngsters. Despite the struggling, peace and pleasure emerged triumphant in his imaginative and prescient, with demise taking up an inevitability, a visitor he should welcome with folded fingers. He as soon as famously mentioned: “Death just isn’t extinguishing the sunshine; it’s only placing out the lamp as a result of the daybreak has come.”
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“Every day is a day of remembrance in his reminiscence. We bear in mind the poet and rejoice him all year long and day and night time.”
“May that nation awaken where Rabindranath’s language, Bengali, receives respect, dignity, and the love of all citizens. May that nation flourish where there is no terror of language,” the Chief Minister mentioned.
Banerjee talked about that the state authorities had on Thursday organised a programme in Jhargram district, remembering Tagore.
“Yesterday, we had a authorities programme in Jhargram. There, we had the chance to pay tribute to many students. We bowed to the world poet on that event. Before that programme, we additionally paid tribute to him publicly on social media,” she added.
Published – August 08, 2025 04:13 pm IST
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