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Dhaka Day by Day

Ogo Pothero Shathi, Nomi Barongbar!

by P Haque
Where the mind to without /ear and the head to held hfeh. — into that heaven of five dom. 1st my country awake’
The Bengali will recall, yet again. tn his own. Individual, humble way. one of the greatest poets al hto language on hts 131st birthday On 25th of Batohakh 131 years ago. the star rose on the Bengali language and nation, with the birth of the immortal Rabindranath Tagore He to gone, as wc must all go. but, Is Immortalized tn hto songs and his writings, for his nation, of
whom he was so passionately fond. He hod rightly pre dieted. my nation will remember me. always, through my songs, a prediction which still holds true, so many years later and had
Pound to say. Tagore has sung Bengal Into a na-Uon.-
.The Bengali has sung Tagore's songs, acted out hto plays, laughed and cried with the heroes and heroines of hts incomparable novela and short stories and danced
to music composed on his songs Every year, on the appointed day, hts people gather, humbly. to pay respect to him. who had given them an identity all their own. This man, had wop for the Bengali, the Nobel Prize for literature at a time, when the British were at the zenith of their power, and for the Nobel Prize, to be won by a man other than white, was an unthinkable proposition But then, Tagore had always made the unthinkable, thinkable, for the Bengali. Although at times, perhaps unthinkingly accused of being an armchair Idealist, he was obviously far from that; his love of children and his faith in them, his love for hts people, proved over and over again, hts capacity to do whatever he did. with al) his energy and being And it to this love for his people which they tn turn, liave remembered him by
The 25th day of the month of Baishakh. is a landmark In the lives of hto nation, his beloved people. Tagore never professed to be a genius with unrivalled patience and persistence Each violent storm, on the personal or national level. left the great man. wiser and sadder. It is a lesson, which hts nation tries to learn from
him As we cele brate the birthday not h^TuTTe^S. that his patriotic songs, were an inspiration for the na tlonal struggle, and continue to inspire us now. as it did then. Hts devotional songs, move us to tears, his songs on nature, make na ture not only a background but a participant, his love songs turn us all Into lovers. He co axes the best out of us and leaves us wiser, perhaps a little sadder at our Inadequacies. And
yet. his sensibility, rooted so deeply tn hts lyrics. teaches us. that it is Impossible, Io ignore our heritage. It shows us that it Is the culture of our land, which makes us reluctant to take sides in the battle which each new generation renews. And as we renew our pledge to honour the great poet, we renew our pledge to honour ourselves, to delight in life itself. Only then can we enjoy the beauty and the tragedies of life and live It fully. And resist succumbing to poverty of spirit, to continue to love and to forgive and tn remembering him. recall 'All humanity’s greatest is mine"