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Performing with the Rigchhandam troupe from Calcutta - disciples of Smt. Subhra Mandal. Presenting "Khudito Pashan", a dance drama based on a short story by Tagore, using elements of drama, Rabindra Sangeet and Indian classical dance.
L to R: Sujoyini Mandal, Nayantara Parpia, Ruchita Bose, Shromona Jana
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
| by Rabindranath Tagore
| photo: sunset at Town of 1770, Queensland, Australia
Monomoy Bhattacharya singing (behind) a Rabindrasangeet & Debarati Shome waiting to sing next. Madhya Kalikata Sanskritik Prangan - Rabindra Jayanti 2008 - 25e Boishakh, 1415 - Rabindranath Tagore's Birthday, Bowbazar, Kolkata, India.
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which once realized makes all movements full of meaning and joy.
------Rabindranath Tagore
“These paper boats of mine
are meant to dance on the ripples of hours,
and not reach any destination.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
"Mother, the folk who live up in the clouds call out to me-
"We play from the time we wake till the day ends.
We play with the golden dawn, we play with the silver moon."
I ask, "But how am I to get up to you ?"
They answer, "Come to the edge of the earth, lift up your
hands to the sky, and you will be taken up into the clouds."
"My mother is waiting for me at home, "I say, "How can I leave
her and come?"
Then they smile and float away.
But I know a nicer game than that, mother.
I shall be the cloud and you the moon.
I shall cover you with both my hands, and our house-top will
be the blue sky.
The folk who live in the waves call out to me-
"We sing from morning till night; on and on we travel and know
not where we pass."
I ask, "But how am I to join you?"
They tell me, "Come to the edge of the shore and stand with
your eyes tight shut, and you will be carried out upon the waves."
I say, "My mother always wants me at home in the everything-
how can I leave her and go?"
They smile, dance and pass by.
But I know a better game than that.
I will be the waves and you will be a strange shore.
I shall roll on and on and on, and break upon your lap with
laughter.
And no one in the world will know where we both are."
~ Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941~
Walking the Beach
©Jane Bickford, Columbus, Ohio
8 x 8 paper collage
“The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
Professor Indra Choudhuri, Scotland’s first Chair in Tagore studies, has joined The Scottish Centre for Tagore Studies (ScoTs), a centre set up to celebrate the life and works of the Indian Rabbie Burns, Rabindranath Tagore.
Mother, I really think the flowers go to school underground.
They do their lessons with doors shut,
and if they want to come out to play before it is time,
their master makes them stand in a corner.
When the rains come they have their holidays.
Branches clash together in the forest,
and the leaves rustle in the wild wind,
the thunder-clouds clap their giant hands and
the flower children rush out in dresses of
pink, yellow and white.
~Tagore~
“Let me light my lamp”, says the star, “And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness.” - Rabindranath Tagore
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Accept me, my lord, accept me for this while.
Let those orphaned days that passed without thee be forgotten.
Only spread this little moment wide across thy lap, holding it under thy light.
I have wandered in pursuit of voices that drew me yet led me nowhere.
Now let me sit in peace and listen to thy words in the soul of my silence.
Do not turn away thy face from my heart's dark secrets, but burn them till they are alight with thy fire.
------Rabindranath Tagore
Madhya Kalikata Sanskritik Prangan - Rabindra Jayanti 2008 - 25e Boishakh, 1415 - Rabindranath Tagore's Birthday, Bowbazar, Kolkata, India.
Madhya Kalikata Sanskritik Prangan - Rabindra Jayanti 2008 - 25e Boishakh, 1415 - Rabindranath Tagore's Birthday , Bowbazar, Kolkata, India.
"I hunt for the golden stag.
You may smile, my friends, but I
pursue the vision that eludes me.
I run across hills and dales, I wander
through nameless lands, because I am
hunting for the golden stag.
You come and buy in the market
and go back to your homes laden with
goods, but the spell of the homeless
winds has touched me I know not when
and where.
I have no care in my heart; all my
belongings I have left far behind me.
I run across hills and dales, I wander
through nameless lands--because I am
hunting for the golden stag."
~ Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941 ~
From "The Gardener LXIX: I Hunt for the Golden Stag"