khair_ctg
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that is not called secularism. that is Hindu cultural chauvinism and a very Islamphobic tendency to get rid of Muslim cultural elements for Hindu-Brahmin culture (and call it "Bengali") that we have seen from the time of the Hindu zamindars and we see today from anti-Muslim people passing off as MuslimI read and listened to Tagore extensively, possibly more than anyone on the forum. Tagore created some of the finest pieces of literature that are out there.
Having said that, I can only find one reference to a short story by Tagore named " Musalmanir Golpo." I don't know if it actually by him or not. However the story does show Tagores overwhelming concern about the communalism in Hindu religion as he observed.
Yet he is revered in Bangladesh, goes to show how secular are the folks in BD contrary to what some is trying to propagate
i don't know much about this exact poem or song. but who knows, R. Tagore might have been calling resistance from Muslims to the removal of Muslim culture as "limiting" and "prohibiting" - while imposition of his culture on Muslims alien to it was "Fountain of Wisdom".@khair_ctg , I will take a stab at the translation of this piece.
It is not word for word translation as that does not make sense when idiomatic language is used, but it ill convey the sense.
Where minds are free from Fear and heads are held high....
Where there are no limits and Prohibition on Knowledge.....
Where the local ( Regional ) boundaries have not broken up our World into little pieces.....
Where the words come out of the Depths of the Truth.....
Where the Fountain of Wisdom has not lost its way in the harsh nature of the deserts....
I hope my land will awake in the Freedom such a Paradise......
R. Tagore taken out of context had some noble thought in the works. kept in context, he and the religious-economic class he was part of was quite malicious. i hope "RoshniPK" was just short of a little more research about the man
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