KUSHTIA, May 8, 2019 (BSS) – To celebrate the 158th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, a three-day festival was inaugurated in Shilaidaha under Kumarkhali upazila of the district today.
Cultural Ministry and Kushtia District Administration jointly organised
the programme while AKM Sarwar Jahan Badsha, MP, inaugurated it as the chief
guest.
On the occasion, a discussion meeting was held at Shilaidaha Kuthibari
with Deputy Commissioner of Kushtia and chairman of the celebration committee
Md Aslam Hossain in the chair.
Director-2 of Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Wahida Musarrot Anita and
Additional Police Superintendent KM Johirul Islam took part the discussion as
special guests while Professor Sarowar Murshed of Islamic University was
present as prime discussant.
The Kuthibari has been renovated and decorated for the occasion and a huge
number of Tagore lovers crowded here to observe the programmes on poet’s life
and works which beginning at 10am and will continue till 5pm every day.
A Mela has been also set up on the premises of the Kuthibari. Security
measures have been beefed up in and around the Kuthibari.
Robindranath Tagore, who introduced Bengali language to the world, came to
Shelaidaha in November 1889 to look after his family estate. He translated
Gitanjali into prose poems in English while spending a significant time of
his life here (Kuthibari).
On the 25th of Baishakh in 1268 Bengali calendar, Rabindranath, the
fountainhead of Bengali wisdom, was born at Jorasanko in Kolkata. The
legendary poet breathed his last at his paternal residence in Kolkata on
Sraban 22 of Bangla year 1348 (August 7, 1941).