Well he has Bangladesh flag (so I assumed he is originally from Bangladesh)....I did not know the details of this fellow.
And right after your post we have this iajdani post with some "descriptive" words for Tagore....are you gonna say he is not Bangladeshi either?
The Spirit Of The War For Liberation Of Bangladesh
By Farooque Chowdhury
26 March, 2014
The state (Pakistan) tried to snatch away the language of the Baangaalee people and the alphabets the people use. It attempted to change culture of the people. It even tried to stop singing a type of songs – songs by Rabindranath Tagore – by the Bangladesh people as the state considered Tagore as Hindu. The state even changed wordings in poems and songs by Nazrul Islam, the poet considered a rebel and imprisoned by the British colonial masters. The word Shashaan, crematorium ground of the Hindu community, in Nazrul’s poem was replaced by the word gorostaan, graveyard used by the Muslims. Curriculums at pre-secondary and secondary levels were remodeled.
http://www.countercurrents.org/chowdhury260314.htm
Rabindranath, Nazrul’s contributions to 1971 war discussed
May 24, 2014 12:07 am·
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Cultural Correspondent
Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam
The national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam and Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore have not only shaped the intellectual oeuvre of the Bengali people with their literary creations, the two have also indirectly, but strongly, contributed to the war of independence of the country in 1971.
The poets’ contributions to the war was analysed at a discussion session titled Mohan Muktijuddhe Rabindra Nazrul-er Abodan at the Music and Dance Centre of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday.
The programme, which was jointly organised by Asian Cultural Society and Swadhinata Academy Foundation, also featured a cultural show.
Information minister Hasanul Haq Inu attended the discussion session as the chief guest while state minister for foreign affairs M Shahriar Alam was present as a special guest. Ranjit Kumar Biswas, secretary of cultural affairs ministry, M Nurul Islam, president of Asian Cultural Society, ABM Abdul Halim Sarkar, secretary general of the foundation, poet Kazi Rosy, prominent singer Fatema-Tuz-Zohra, Tagore researcher Ahmed Rafique, among others, spoke on the occasion.
The speakers said that Nazrul and Tagore were quite opposite in terms of their temperaments, styles and ways of thinking. As to war, the poets had differing attitudes. Tagore had always been against war, and his anti-war attitude is evident in his novels such as Char Adhyay. However, Nazrul, being a soldier himself, believed that war is sometimes justified to gain human rights.
Still both the poets were similar in that that both of them fought for emancipation of people—while Nazrul actually battled against the injustice of the British colonisers, Tagore also fought with them through his literary creations. Even Tagore renounced his knighthood, offered by the British government, in response to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919.
The discussants also observed that the poets contributed to the 1971 war in indirect ways by developing a kind of uncompromising attitude towards injustice and discrimination in the minds of masses through their writings. Both of them, in fact, made immense contribution in shaping the collective consciousness of people against injustice.
Following the discussion session, 10 leading singers: five Nazrul and five Tagore singers, were honoured with crests for their contributions to the respective music genres. Anup Bhattacharia, Mohiuddin Chowdhury, Fahim Hossain Chowdhury, Iffat Ara Dewan and Rokaiya Hasina Lily received the honour as Tagore singers, while Fatema-Tuz-Zohra, Sujit Mostafa, Murshid Jahan, Dr. Jagonanda Roy, Dr. Pradip Kumar Nandi received honour as Nazrul singers.
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