Tagore birthday celebrated with traditional fervour

By rendition of popular Rabindra Sangeet tunes, rich tributes were today paid to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore all over the state on his 152nd birth anniversary.
At Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan set up by the bard, the day began early with students singing the 'Baitalik' (prayer songs).
A special prayer was also held at Udayan, the house where Tagore had celebrated his last birthday in 1941.
Celebrated according to the Bengali calendar, Tagore's birthday, known as 'Pachishe (25th) Baishakh' in Bengali, has already been declared a holiday by the state government.
From this year, Visva-Bharati has decided that they will celebrate the birth anniversary according to the Bengali calendar and not according to the English calendar under which the birthday falls on May 7.

Visitors who thronged the bard's abode in Santiniketan were treated with an exhibition themed on the history of Tagore's publications in Rabindra Bhavana.

A book titled 'Robindro Borsho Borone ebong Jonmodine' was released which narrates how Tagore used to welcome the new year and his birthday.
At Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata and at other places all over the city, Gurudev's birthday was celebrated with songs, poems and recitals from his repertoire.
In Kolkata, hundreds of people paid a visit to Tagore's ancestral home Jorasanko Thakurbari where cultural programmes were held to mark the occasion.