On an evening in April, 150 years back, a prodigy was born to the Thakur family of Jorashanko, Kolkata. He was to transform Bengali literature, music and broadly Bengali culture. What we would have been without Rabindranath Tagore ? The man who wrote a piece for every situation of life. Influenced and inspired several generations of Bengalis - took Indian culture to the world. To fellow Bengalis is the reminder of his words ('Letters - Chithipotro'):
Amra na podiya Pondit ...
আমরা না পড়িয়া পন্ডিত
আমরা না লড়িয়া বীর
আমরা ধাঁ করিয়া সভ্য
আমরা ফাঁকি দিয়া পেট্রিয়ট
আমরা ভারী ভদ্র, ভারী বুদ্হিমান
কোনো বিষযে পাগলামি নাই
আমরা পাশ করিব, রোজগার করিব ও তামাক খাইব
আমরা এগোইব না - অনুসরণ করিব
কাজ করিব না - পরামর্শ দিব !
Let's rediscover Tagore !
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May 8, 2011
Apr 23, 2011
The net is amazing !
Was surfing wikimapia to locate Poteswari tala in Shantipur. One hit led to another and I happened to see a reference of my Great Grandfather - Sudhamoy Pramanick's interest in Sankrit literature in 1316 BS (102 yrs ago)! Also his role in the Satyagraha movement against the Salt Laws while Netaji was being arrested in 1930 ! And this was not a happening metro city - it was a small sleepy town in the Nadia district from a century ago !
Sudhamoy Pramanick
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sudhamoy Pramanick (1884– Oct 1974) ( Bengali: সুধাময় প্রামাণিক ) was a bengali advocate from Shantipur. He was the lifetime secretary of the Tili Samaj - in his time he was one of the fortunate Presidencians - a year senior to Rajendra Prasad. He was a social activist of sorts - involved in the Satyagraha movement [1] to campaign for Indian independence.
Click the link above to read the rest in Wikipedia
Another amazing piece is below. A document about Bengali books compiled by a Frenchman from more than a century back, preserved in a British Museum! I guess we have much to learn on chronicling and Infotech yet. Sudhamoy Pramanick's name appears on this page about some Sanskrit work done in 1905 !
Sudhamoy Pramanick
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sudhamoy Pramanick (1884– Oct 1974) ( Bengali: সুধাময় প্রামাণিক ) was a bengali advocate from Shantipur. He was the lifetime secretary of the Tili Samaj - in his time he was one of the fortunate Presidencians - a year senior to Rajendra Prasad. He was a social activist of sorts - involved in the Satyagraha movement [1] to campaign for Indian independence.
Click the link above to read the rest in Wikipedia
Another amazing piece is below. A document about Bengali books compiled by a Frenchman from more than a century back, preserved in a British Museum! I guess we have much to learn on chronicling and Infotech yet. Sudhamoy Pramanick's name appears on this page about some Sanskrit work done in 1905 !
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