"A national anthem is not to be determined by its musical excellence alone, which is at best secondary. Any text can be set to music."
Mr. Genius, I bet, you never wrote a single scholarly article or thesis about the critical wordings of a perfect national anthem? Even Americans and Europeans might benefit from such critical article and be prompted to change the wordings of their poorly worded anthems too? Write something concrete and publish for the public before you go against Tagore's wordings. What makes you so upset with Tagore's wordings that our intellectuals missed in 1971? Because he was a 'malaun' (your favorite chanting word)? Did not wear a topee like you? Spell it out honestly! Tagore is the Daddy of Bangla literature. If you did not know the fact already, read him! It will free you from your chronic dwarfism. Without his words and music, many Khans would still be in the trees with their tails attached to the branches.
If somebody's age your problem, then a forty five years old Bangladesh should be your main concern. She has grown up and does not need a new anthem! Not from some halfwit mediocre BNP/Jamat cadre!
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Jalal Uddin Khan <jukhan@gmail.com> wrote:
Forida Mojid is getting more foolish, peevish and womanish as she is getting more and more oldish. Like a gopali gondola, she is worked by only one oar. Your musical sense is too coarse and uncouth to improve. A national anthem is not to be determined by its musical excellence alone, which is at best secondary. Any text can be set to music. In your myopic thinking, if the music is the only criterion, then go and choose one of the best songs of which there are myriads. Counter the 6 points I raised in my post on March 9 and my other friends raised in their posts.
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