Relevance of Rabindranath Tagore today
Scanning the newspaper for tributes to the great Bengali Bard, Rabindranath Tagore , I came across a presentation by Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee . And my mind raced back to an evening in the past; an evening of recitations and songs I had experienced in Bengal Club .(please note the word experienced) a year back. A friend of ours had invited both of us, husband and wife, to this musical evening in honour of the Bard. Being used to spending the evening watching Himesh Reshmaiya snorting out popular numbers or watching with mounting disbelief the progression of the fast paced, nailbiting episodes of Indian Idol( we live very ordinary lives) , we were a bit apprehensive of what the evening had in store for us. Amongst the performers were Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee himself,singer Pramita Mullick , theatre personality Bijoylakshmi Burman , actors Arindam Sil, Chaitee Ghoshal, Parambratta Chatterjee amongst others. There were English renditions of various poems and plays. The English translations...