EasyNow
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no self-respecting Bangladeshi can support Tagore as their own poet. Shakespeare is English. he was not French that the French were imposing on the English during their occupation of England. if the French did do that with one or more of their poets, you would call any dissenting Englishman as "radical" right?
You're argument does not hold water. Bangladesh was not under 'occupation', it was one country. You' want to disown Tagore for not being Bangladeshi when the country didn't even exist?
If that is the case you should also reject all the other 'occupiers' in our history.
Additionally, Tagore spent over 20 years of his life living in territory that is now BD, these were his own family lands - so no one here has a right to judge his Bangladeshi-ness.
Why have you brought the word 'radical' into the conversation. Its another poster who said Tagore extremists should be exterminated. As you've brought it up, is that radical? Or is your morality reserved for anyone who doesn't agree with you only?