today was the 150th birth anniversary of guru rabindranath tagore......it seemed the whole of bengal was celebrating this occasion........in our residential complex also ........a program was organised........the local newspapers were filled with the new train cum museum being launched in the memory of the poet........
on this event.....national association for the blind......a blind organisation of which my dad is the vice president released gitanjali and gitobitan in braille.........blind students had also organised a drama written by tagore............and they had achieved so much perfection in their performance .........that to rate them lesser than sighted people would be doing injustice to them.................
i was also reminded of my participation in the rabindra jayanti program in our school when i was in the 6th standard..........generally Bengali students took part in the program...........but since my best friends aruna and vasudha were taking part........i had also requested the music teacher to take me in...........we had all sung 'purano shei diner kotha'........i still remember the lyrics of that song........the prize distribution also use to take place on that day........and i had got a merit card or something in maths and science........my mom had gifted me a book 'daddy long legs' after a day or two.................the whole book was in the form of letters written by an orphan girl to her mentor whom she had never seen ........but she knew that her mentor cum sponsorer had long legs........it was such a beautiful fantasy type story............
life had been so simple in those days......hope god restores the peace and the simplicity we had in our lives once again...........