Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2024: Celebrating the Legacy of the Bard of Bengal

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This year Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti will be celebrated on Wednesday, 8th May. Nationwide Celebration of Rabindranath Jayanti in other states will be celebrated as per the Gregorian calendar on Tuesday 7th May, 2024. Rabindra Jayanti is a vibrant festival celebrated every year on the 25th day of Boishakh to honor Rabindranath Tagore’s birthday, popularly known as Poncheeshe Boishakh.

Who was the Rabindranath Tagore ?

The Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7th, 1861, in Jorasanko Thakurbari, Kolkata. He was a very famous Bengali poet and writer. Tagore was the youngest member of his affluent family and he came from an affluent family. Tagore had a profound desire for exploration and he was often referred to as the Bard of Bengal or Gurudev.

Tagore’s contribution in the field of art and literature is incomparable . He achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for his poetry collection, “Geetanjali”.

As a teenager, I first encountered Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize winner from Chile. His early collection of romantic poems, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, was devoured by my friends and me.

Somewhat to my surprise I read that his poem from that collection, “In my Sky at Twilight”, was almost a transcreation of Tagore’s song, “Tumi Sondhyar Meghamala”.

He was a poet and writer as well as an influential artist and musician . He composed over 2,230 songs and painted over 3,000 paintings . He wrote the national anthems of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka . He founded Viswa Bharti University which is known as Shantiniketan.