GUWAHATI, May 9 � Governor Janaki Ballav Patnaik today unveiled the bust of Kabiguru Rabindra Nath Tagore at the 150th Rabindra Jayanti programme organised by Greater Guwahati Rabindra Jayanti Udjapan Committee at Rabindra Bhawan.
In his speech, he described Rabindra Nath Tagore as the greatest poet of India after poet Kalidas.
�Tagore intensely loved the soil of India and its unity in diversity, which reflects in his poetry,� he said.
Patnaik also pointed out that Rabindra Nath Tagore is the only poet in the world whose songs have become National Anthems in two countries. While Jana Gana Mana is our National Anthem in India, Bangladesh has adopted Amar Sonar Bangla as its National Anthem.
�Tagore was not only an immensely versatile poet, he was also a great story writer, novelist, playwright, essayist and composer, a singer himself, a talented painter and musician. His organising skills reflect in the establishment of Shantiniketan, an ideal educational institution with a message of humanism and international amity,� he mentioned.
Thanking the organisers for the programme on the occasion of Rabindra Jayanti, he added that the people of India should be proud to be born in the land of Gandhi and Tagore. �Ages would pass, and generations would come and go, but Tagore would live forever in his poems and songs, plays and short stories of immortal value,� added Patnaik.
