Monday, March 6, 2017

Talent of Rabindranath (contd -4)- Hindu Mela

Brajendranath Bandyopadhyay quoted from Indian Daily News dated 15 Feb 1875;
"The Hindu Mela"; The ninth anniversary of the Hindu Mela was opened at 4 pm, on Thursday, the 11th instant , at the well known Parseebagan ....on the Circular Road , by Rajesh Kamal Krishna, Bahadur, the president of the National Society .../Baboo Rabindranath Tagore, the youngest son of Baboo DebendranathTagore, a handsome lad of some 15, had composed a Bengali poemon Bharat (India) which he delivered from memory, the sauvity of his tone much pleased his audience. "
According to this description the 11th Feb 1875, Raja Kamal Krishna Bahadur being on the chair,
the 9th Annual session of Hindu Mela was held and Rabindranath , actual age being 13 years 9 months, recited a poem on Bharat written by him.
Jogesh Chandra Bagal  in his book "Hindu Melar Itibritta" [1375] wrote, "this is the first time a young boy of 14 years old recited a own written poem as a " Gift to Hindu Mela". This information was published in Bengalee on 20 th Feb 1875.
The news of the long poem, "Hindu Melar Upahar" recited by Rabindranath in the ninth session was published in Bilingual magazine Amrita Bazar Patrika on 25 Feb 1875. This is the first poem published in the name of Rabindranath .    
The life as a poet of Rabindranath started from this year when he came to understand Baishnab Sahitya. At the medieval age in all the avenues of Banga Sahitya the love story of Radhakrishna took a prominent part. This is known from the History of Bengali Literature . But subsequently the system became polluted due to moral turpitude of the followers of Baishnab Sahitya. Poet Madhusudan first wrote a Kabya " Brajangana Kabya" [1861] to remove the immorality of the then Baishnab Sahitya.   The learned Bengalees gradually became again attracted to this literature.
This was the first   series of poems written in a pseudonym Bhanusingh  by Rabindranath.He discussed in different essays of Vidyapati's Padabali leading to the publication of "An introduction to the Maithili language of north Bihar containing a grammar , Chrestomathy & Vocabulary.[1882].

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