The first time I sang the National Anthem composed by Rabindranath Tagore, the rhythm and melody touched my heart and magnified the love for Bangladesh. I began to read his stories and poems, which he created for children, gave me real pleasure. His power of simplification and showing the beauty of truth in little things for extensive exemplification is why my feelings of curiosity make him my favorite author. The Tagores were from a cultured and wealthy family. Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 and died on August 7, 1941. His father, Devendranath, was one of the leaders of the Brahma Samaj. The first years of the poet’s life passed in an atmosphere of religion and arts, literature, music and painting. As an author, the trend of his life was contemplated early. He was raised and taught in three languages: Sanskrit, Bengali, and English.
Tagore’s literary life spanned sixty years, and he is reminiscent of Victor Hugo in the copious and varied body of work: more than a thousand poems; nearly two dozen plays and plays; eight novels; eight or more volumes of short stories; more than two thousand songs, of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music; and a large amount of prose on literary, social, religious, political, and other topics. In addition to his English translations of some of his literary works; the paintings of him; his travels and lecture tours through Asia, America and Europe; and his activities as an educator, as a social and religious reformer, and as a politician – and there we have, judged by quantity alone, the life’s work of a Nipple. Suffice it to say that his genius was nothing more than the ability to exert himself infinitely; but to note the element of steel and concrete that was used to make it, and thus get rid of the legend, which has grown in some quarters in recent years, of Tagore, the pale poet of the ladies’ table.
In 1901 he founded his school, the Santiniketan, in Bolpur as a protest against the evil existing educational system. The school was a great success and transfigured Viswabharati. Revisiting England in 1911, he brought the English Gitanjali with him, and its publication in 1912 and the award of the Nobel Prize for literature the following year made him world famous. This was the first award of that award to an Asian. The remainder of Tagore’s life was spent in Santiniketan, except for several trips and speaking tours in which he carried his message of human unity to all major countries in Asia, the Americas, and Europe.
Tagore was a proud and ardent patriot. The most intense period of his political activity was in the years after 1905, when the agitation against the partition of Bengal was at its highest. He renounced his knighthood in 1919 as a protest against the Amritsar affair in a letter to the viceroy, which is among the great documents of freedom. His patriotic poems and songs, particularly the latter, have passed into the common heritage of his country; the song “Bharata-bhagya-vidata” is now sung all over India and “Amar sonar Bangla” in Bangladesh as the national anthem. In this regard, I would like to discuss some of his books that have touched my heart to have unlimited pleasure from spiritual and real cultural life.
HOIMONTI
It is a remarkable short story where Tagore has tried to reflect a contrast between the two families that comprise conservatism and modernism. Hoimonti was brought up in a modern system of education where her father had influenced her with knowledge, culture, heredity and the proper means to retaliate in real life situation. But she wanted bad luck that she was married to Opu, son of a conservative family. This family believed in superstitions and social customs. Opu’s father and mother were prejudiced, which would greatly influence Hoimonti. In the last of her Hoimonti vanished and her mother-in-law was looking for another girlfriend for her son.
BOLÁI
This story is about a boy who has no mother and was raised by his aunt. He developed character, which is different from his age group. He has an unusual fondness for plants and trees. Bolai would not tolerate someone removing plants and trees. He thought that each plant has a unique life, which is unknown to everyone. He showed all his love and sympathy even for the tree that grew in the wrong place. In the latter, his favorite tree was cut down when his father left for Shimla for higher studies. Bolai’s aunt was shocked by the demolition of the tree, which she thought was the personification of Bolai.
shesher kabita
It is a famous novel created by Tagore. The actress of the story is Labonno and the actor is Amit. The contrast and the love affairs of both have been reflected in a significant way. The book has the greatest literary value in the world. True love and an affair with world high literature has been vividly reflected here, where the two eager personalities are most eager to meet each other. They lacked greed, jealousy, hints and bad temper and know how to deal with social unrest and criticism from social critics.
KABULIWALA
The main characters in this story are a girl named Mini and Rahmat the Kabuliwala. Kabuliwala is from Afghanistan; he sells things from door to door. Once he was introduced to Mini, the talkative girl who was five years old. The man has left his daughter at home, who is Mini’s age. Mini and Kabuliwala developed a very good friendship. Kabuliwala used to bring dried fruit for Mini as a gift and showed the patience to listen to Mini. They used to joke among themselves about “going to the in-laws house.” For some reason, the man has to go to prison for eight years. After getting out of jail he wanted to meet Mini. But, at that time, Mini’s marriage ceremony was taking place. In the last eight years he has forgotten about his friend Kabuliwala. She was not friendly like she was in her childhood and she felt shy seeing him. Kabuliwala could feel the distance that had passed between them and his daughter.
POSTMASTER
It is a short story by Rabindranath about a postmaster. The postmaster was transferred to a village post office in India. Here he met a girl named Ratan with whom he would always keep chatting hour after hour. One day the postmaster fell ill, Ratan has taken care of him and thus a close relationship developed between them. When the postmaster was transferred back to the city, the girl was surprised and asked him to take her with him, but the postmaster was in no condition to take her. Rattan lived with the sheer pain of the beautiful memory; she had passed with the postmaster.
I like Rabindranath’s book because I get to learn a lot about the land, people and nature. We learn the issues, religion, culture and heritage of Bengali life. His books sometimes really create excitement, insight and excitement for readers by reflecting on social conflicts and the contrast between conservative and modern educated people. In addition, the poetry of his rooted in common life has been vividly contemplated significantly, which greatly touches my heart.