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Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian and the only Indian to receive this honour. [1]
Bengali poetry is a rich tradition of poetry in the Bengali language and has many different forms. Originating in Bengal , the history of Bengali poetry underwent three successive stages of development: poetry of the early age (like Charyapad ), the Medieval period and the age of modern poetry .
Bangamata" (Bengali: বঙ্গমাতা, English: "Mother Bengal" [1]) is a 14-line Bengali poem written by Rabindranath Tagore as part of his 1896 poetry book Chaitali. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Bangamata
Meghnad Badh Kavya (Bengali: মেঘনাদবধ কাব্য; English: The Slaying of Meghnada) is a Bengali epic poem by Michael Madhusudan Dutta.Regarded as a central work in Bengali literature and Dutta's greatest literary work as well as the finest epic in Bengali literature and also as one of the greatest works of world literature. [1]
Chandidas was among the earliest poets in the nascent Bengali language, and many of his poems deal with the Radha-Krishna theme. In 1474, Maladhar Basu translated the 10th and 11th cantos of the Sanskrit Srimad Bhagavatam (composed c. 9th century), into the Bengali poem SriKrsnaVijay .
I praise you, Motherland) is a poem written in Sanskritised Bengali [1] [2] by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s. [3] [4] The first two verses of the poem were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress. [5] [6] [7] The poem was first published in 1882 as part of Chatterjee's Bengali novel Anandmath. [8]
The poem was first sung on the second day of the annual session of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta on 27 December 1911. The song was performed by Sarala Devi Chowdhurani, Tagore's niece, along with a group of school students, in front of prominent Congress Members like Bishan Narayan Dhar, Indian National Congress President and Ambika Charan Majumdar.
The poem "Abani Bari Acho" is a monsoon night's verse, where the poet assumes the role of Abani . However, while penning this verse, Shakti recounted that when the poet gazed upon the Meghdoot garland and a bottle of mahua in an abandoned house, he felt as though innumerable cows had traversed by.