Brajendranath Bandyopadhyay quoted the news below from the Indian Daily News dated 15 Feb 1875;" The Hindoo Mela " - The ninth anniversary of the Hindoo Mela was opened at 4 PM, on Thursday, the 11 th instant, at the well known Parsebagan ...on the Circular Road , by rajah Kamal Krishna , Bahadoor,the President of the National Society...../Baboo Rabindranath Tagore, the younest son of Baboo Debendranath Tagore, a handsome lad of 15, had composed a Bengali poem on Bharat (India) which he delivered from memory;the suavity of his tone much pleased his audience.
As per this description the ninth anniversary of Hindoo Mela was inaugurated under the president ship of Raja Kamal Krishna Bahadoor on 11 Feb 1875, and Rabindranath [though mentioned to be age 15, but actually he was 13 years 9 months] had recited a poem "Bharat".
Jogesh Bagal in his book Hindoo Melar Itibritta mentioned that this is the first time when Rabindranath at the age of 14 , openly recited a poem in a public programme.
It was known for many days that in the inauguration Rabindranath recited a poem titled " Hindoo Melar Upahar" which was published in bi-lingual paper "Amrita Bazar Patrika on Thursday 25 th Feb !875. signed Sri rabindranath Thakur.
But a few years ago, Rathindranath Ghatak Choudhury in his article "Rabindranather Ekti Dusprapya Kabita" reprinted a poem of 80 lines titled ,"Hok Bharaate Jay" and changed the thoughts kept in mind by readers for a good number of years. This was published in the magazine "Bandhab" edited by Kaliprasanna Ghosh and published from Dhaka.
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