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Kabiguru's 75th death anniv today

Staff Correspondent
There is so much talk suddenly these days about religion, or rather the misinterpretation of it, which leads to intolerance, violence and bigotry.
Rabindranath Tagore did not live in a world of violence and religious extremism as we know it today. But the polymath was still able to get to the bottom of it with stunning, mindpiercing insights. "Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it," he once said.
But what about violence that stems from intolerance? It has its origin in our dissatisfaction with our hive-wall arrangement, - the too-exclusive enclosure that deprives us of the perspective which is so much needed to give us the proper proportion in our art of living, as the Kabiguru said in one of his thoughtprovoking books, The Religion of Man.
And that's how he remains deeply relevant today, 75 years after his death on 22 Srabon, 1348, of the Bangla Calendar.
Popularly known as Biswakobi, his enormous body of works reshaped Bangla literature and music in a way that academic pursuits in these fields remain incomplete without studying his works.
In his seven decades of endeavours in different genres of Bangla literature, the great bard, playwright, novelist, composer and painter enriched Bangla language and literature and elevated its position in the global arena.
His unsurpassable creations touch us in so many ways and give expressions to so many of our emotions that we feel his ubiquity every so often.
Born on 25th of Baishakh, 1261 (Bangla year) or May 7, 1861, the Nobel Laureate left his mark on all the genres of Bangla literature: songs, poetry, novels, essays, short stories and dramas.
Before his journey to the great beyond, he left for the world 52 poetry collections, 38 dramas, 13 novels and novellas, 36 essays and 95 short stories.
For Bangladeshis and Indians, their first introduction to Tagore comes through the national anthems of the two countries. He composed more than 1,900 songs comprising Rabindra Sangeet, one of the most popular genres of music in the Indian Subcontinent.
His work inspired Bangalees of East Pakistan to break free from the oppression of West Pakistan that tried to wipe out his name from the hearts of Bangalees during its 24-year rule.
The cultural movement that started in the early 60s through the celebrations of Tagore's birth anniversary defying an unofficial ban on Rabindra Sangeet hardened Bangalees' resolve for liberation.
Tagore's brilliance touched every fields of art while his philosophies regarding science, society, economics and politics put him in lively debate in great minds like Mahatma Gandhi and Einstein.
His creation of Visva-Bharati in Shantiniketan is the epitome of educa-
tion, which has been striving to open the minds of students through interaction with nature and philosophies of life.
Tagore spent a considerable time in the eastern part of Bengal, present-day Bangladesh, where he not only wrote many of his masterpieces, including Chhinnapatra, but left his mark in the hearts of ordinary people who lived under his father's land tenancy, by introducing modern agriculture methods as well as opening a bank.
But to return to the talk of religion and its interpretation, Tagore had his own ideas.
"The individual man must exist for Man the great, and must express him in disinterested works, in science and philosophy, in literature and arts, in service and worship. This is his religion, which is working in the heart of all his religions in various names and forms," he wrote in The Religion of Man.