Selected Songs of Tagore

When Tagore was a boy on an overcast day at noon he lay prone on a bed in a corner room in their familys home at Jorasanko and wrote a line in his slate - Gahana Kusuma Kunja Majhe. And with that line the prodigious boy set out on a path that would eventually bring him the Nobel Prize for Literature the first to an Asian.Kobiguru - as Tagore is reverentially called by the Bengalis - was a polymath with a staggering body of work. He composed songs wrote poetry plays dance-dramas short stories novels essays and even took up painting later in his life. His songs that number over 2200 seem to span every conceivable human emotion.This selection features a hundred and eight songs of Tagore selected by the translator including some of the most popular ones such as Mamo Chitte and Jodi Tor Daak Shune Keu.