Remembering Tagore

I am not a Tagore fanatic. I mean I do not "eat drink and sleep" reading Rabindranath Tagore or even listening to his songs. I revere the poet's ability to move the world with his words and I have read his works and listened to his songs, whenever I could. Last week, a music school, near my house celebrated the 150 years of the poet's birth anniversary. They had called in celebrity singers and much more. I chose to stay indoors and read a book...with a line running in my mind:

"A hundred years from today
who are you, sitting, reading a poem of mine,
                under curiosity’s sway -
           a hundred years from today?"

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Incidentally, when my father returned home that night, he mused," I salute this poet not because he got us a Nobel, but because he dared to say-A hundred years from today... Such was the confidence of the man...He is now an institution, the city is sporting his face across the billboards." I nodded my head over the dinner.

What else could a simple man and his daughter say!

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