Current BD Gov may undermine even a weed that stands taller than the first family.
From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] BD government undermines national poet
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Date: Thursday, May 26BD government undermines national poet
This is a matter of great shame for the entire nation to witness the way Bangladesh government has recently undermined, if not dampened the great image of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. It may be mentioned here that the government organized huge programs and events to celebrate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindra Nath Tagore, while the state-owned Bangladesh Television not only continued programs on Tagore for days, but also erected three large gates with portrait of Rabindra Nath Tagore with Bangla and Hindi greetings texts.
A private television channel also organized a grand event, which was sponsored by a local mobile phone operator, which has recently been purchased by an Indian company. It was learnt from numerous sources that millions of dollars were spent only in Bangladesh for celebrating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Tagore. On the other hand, series of albums both by Tagore singers and singers, who have never sung Tagore songs were released by a number of mostly unknown, if not non-existent audio production companies in Bangladesh. The whole plan was just to give a kind of prophetic and divine touch to the birth anniversary of Tagore, who has been able to successfully establish his self-given title of 'Biswa Kobi' [Global Poet].
I tried to learn as to which international body gave this title to Rabidra Nath Tagore. I even sent hundreds of test messages to people I know in Bangladesh, requesting information on this issue. None of them could come up with any substantial information, except the argument that as Tagore got Nobel Prize in literature, so he is global poet. I reminded them that till date hundreds of poets in the world have already received Nobel Prize in literature, and none of them ever claimed themselves to be Global Poet or Biswa Kobi.
Finally I received the following information on Rabindra Nath Tagore:
The youngest of 13 surviving children, Tagore was born in the Jorasanko mansion in Kolkata of parents Debendranath Tagore [1817–1905] and Sarada Devi (1830–1875). Tagore family patriarchs were the Brahmo founding fathers of the Adi Dharm faith. He was mostly raised by servants, as his mother had died in his early childhood; his father travelled extensively. Tagore largely declined classroom schooling. As Tagore hailed from an elegant family, his father was unwilling to send him to classroom schooling, fearing by mixing with the "low-caste" people in the class, Tagore might get polluted with low-class culture.
Tagore was sent to at a public school in Brighton, East Sussex, England in 1878 to become a Barrister. He first stayed for some months at a house that the Tagore family owned near Brighton and Hove, in Medina Villas; in 1877, his nephew and niece—Suren and Indira, the children of Tagore's brother Satyendranath—were sent together with their mother [Tagore's sister-in-law] to live with him. After staying two years in England, Tagore returned home degreeless in 1880.
It appears from the information, now available, that Rabindranath Tagore was awarded Nobel Prize in consideration of his successful attempt to intermingle the Western-Christian-Hindu philosophy. Rabindranth Tagore was not the recommendation of the Nobel Committee. The Nobel Committee named somebody else. The name of Rabindranath Tagore was not even in the short list of the Nobel Committee. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize neither as a Bengali nor as an Indian. He was awarded the prize as an "Anglo-Indian", while prize was accepted by the British Ambassador and it was delivered to the poet in Calcutta [now Kolkata]. Rabindranath Tagore was not very vast in literary productions in the first decade of the last century. In fact, except the limited 250-copy English edition of Gitanjali, hardly there was any English version of Rabindranath Tagore's other books. Not to speak of any Asian, until 1913 even any American was not awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Rabindranath Tagore was a pro-British wealthy successor to the vast property left by his grand father Dwarakanath Tagore. In the first decade of the 20th Century he was the leading-most Bengali intellectual friend of the British Rulers in India. During the last decades of the 19th century and in the early 20th century there were popular uprisings, known as the 'Terrorist Movement' in Bengal. Khudiram Bose was young recruit by such leaders of 'Terrorist Movement' in Bengal. The British Rulers were very much disturbed by the widespread activities of the volunteers of 'Terroist Movement'. They needed to pacify the Bengalis. Nobel Prize for Rabindranath Tagore was an attempt in that direction. Rabindranath Tagore was not known to the West in the first decade of the 20thth century; hardly any body could have had access to his English edition of Gitanjali; this is obvious from the fact that Rabindranath Tagore was named in the short list of the Nobel Committee for the award of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. It was said that Rabindranath Tagore was known to the Swidish Academy as an 'Anglo-Indian poet' and not either as an Indian or as a Bengali.
Well, I am not either going to buy these information nor I am willing to reject it. This is not my job at all. What I want to say is, there is no room for anyone to glorify Tagore with any intention of undermining Kazi Narul. The government of Bangladesh should immediately investigate this issue and identify those culprits, who are behind humiliating the national poet.
Kazi Nazrul Islam is the national poet of Bangladesh. And, of course, undermining him is equivalent to showing disrespect to the entire nation.http://www.weeklyblitz.net/1456/bd-government-undermines-national-poet
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