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Tagore's birth anniversary today

UNB, Dhaka
The 147th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore will be celebrated across the country today.
The government and sociocultural organisations have taken up extensive programmes to celebrate the great poet's birthday.
Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed will inaugurate Tagore's oirui-anniversary programmes at 10:00am today at Osmani Memorial Auditorium. The inaugural programme will be followed by a cultural function.
Bangladesh Betar, Bangladesh Television, private TV channels and radio stations will broadcast die programme live.
President lajudddin Ahmed and the chief adviser have given special messages highlighting the colourful life of the poet and his contributions to Bengali language and literature.
In his message, the president said, "Rabindranath is not only an individual but also an institution and his distinctive literature and arts would always inspire Bengalispeaking people to do creative work"
Fakhruddin said, "Rabindranath's songs and poems had inspired people during the country's Liberation War."
Shilpakala Academy will organise a cultural programme based on
various creative works of the great poet at the Jatiya Naityashala auditorium in the evening. Prominent artistes will recite poems, dance and renderTagore's songs.
Besides, various programmes have been chalked out to mark the day at Shilaidah in Kushtia, Patisar in Naogaon and South Dighi in Khulna—the three districts that harbour the memories of Rabindranath Tagore.
Local administrations across the country will also arrange programmes marking the day.
Bangladesh missions abroad will also celebrate the day holding various programmes.
As part of the national celebrations, Bangla Academy will arrange a programme on the poet on Sunday in its seminar room.
The academy has also published a souvenir on the occasion.
Tagore was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries.
Born in 1861 at Jorasanko mansion id Kolkata, he was the youngest of thirteen surviving children of Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi.
He became Asia's first Nobel laureate after winning the Nobel Prize in literature for his book Gitanjaliinl913.
Two songs from his canon are now the national anthems of Bangladesh and India - Amar Sonar Bangla and Jana Gana Mana, respectively.
Tagore wrote novels, short stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays on political and personal topics. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), andGhare-Baire (The Home and the World) are among his best-known works.
His verse, short stories, and novels, which often exhibited rhythmic lyricism, colloquial language, meditative naturalism, and philosophical contemplation, received global acclaim.