Rabindranath Tagore birth anniversary: Prasar Bharti, Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival pay rich tribute to Gurudev

Rabindranath Tagore birth anniversary: Prasar Bharti, Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival pay rich tribute to Gurudev

Polymath, poet, artist, painter-Rabindranath Tagore has left a profound impact not only in India but throughout the globe. To celebrate the 159th birth anniversary of Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore and the unwavering spirit of the nation, Prasar Bharati will be telecasting the play The Prophet and The Poet.

The Bengaluru play will be broadcasted on May 7 at 10 pm. 

The Prophet and The Poet is a world-renowned play developed by Bangalore Little Theater (BLT). It is based on an exchange of letters and articles between Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore over 25 years in the context of the struggle for Indian freedom. The exchanges reveal how significantly the two personalities differed in matters, including the form and content of the freedom movement. These missives reveal the ideological differences over the freedom movement between these two greats, and how the rift widened over the years. 

Since its opening, there have been over 108 performances of the play around the world. Prasar Bharati also commissioned a telefilm of the play in 2014. 

Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival premieres Let My Country Awake!

Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (AKLF), the only literary festival in India created by a bookshop and the first literary festival in Kolkata has geared up to celebrate the release of 'Jan Gana Mana - Let My Country Awake' on Tagore's birth anniversary. 

The song will be premiered on The AKLF's Facebook page at 6.30 pm. The session will also include a conversation with Isheeta Ganguly and Dr Shashi Tharoor, which will be moderated by Shutapa Paul.

Featuring Tagore fusion singer Isheeta Ganguly and Lok Sabha member Dr Shashi Tharoor, the song is a heartfelt rendition of India's National anthem 'Jana Gana Mana'. It was released on May 5 to celebrate the birthday of Tagore and the unbreakable spirit of the nation.

The two-minute music video, which comes as an appeal to all Indians to unite during the COVID-19 crisis, presents aerial views of the beautiful cityscapes of Mumbai as it binds viewers in an awe-inspiring rendition of the nation's anthem performed by Ganguly. The video wraps up with Tharoor reciting excerpts from Tagore's 'Where the mind is without fear'. 

Tagore's songs have been used by both India and Bangladesh as their respective National Anthems. Though publishing his first book of poetry under the pseudonym Bhanusimha, he later went on to publish it by his own name. His renowned works include 'Gitanjali' (a poem collection) and 'The Home and the World' (a novel). In 1913, Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He became the first Asian Nobel laureate and also the first non-European to win it for literature. 

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