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Tagore Anniversary: India, Bangladesh to have joint celebrations
Thursday May 05, 2011 02:52:17 PM, IANS
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Dhaka/New Delhi: India
and Bangladesh are to launch this week joint celebrations of the
150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, the globally
revered poet who wrote their respective national anthems.
Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari arrived in Dhaka Thursday to
launch the celebrations jointly with Bangladesh Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina at a function scheduled for Friday.
The Indian part will be opened in New Delhi Saturday by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh.
Ansari, who arrived here on a two-day visit, is accompanied by
wife Salma, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur
and a 59 member delegation that includes three lawmakers.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni received Ansari, Star
Online, website of The Daily Star reported from Dhaka.
Ansari's itinerary includes meeting President Zillur Rahman,
paying homage to the martyrs at the National Memorial at Savar and
to the martyrs of the War of Liberation in 1971.
India and Bangladesh had decided to jointly celebrate the 150th
birth anniversary of Tagore during Sheikh Hasina's visit to New
Delhi in January last year.
Both the countries have chalked out elaborate programmes to mark
the year-long birthday celebrations of the poet who has penned the
national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
As part of the celebrations, the two countries have decided to
produce two feature films, prepare a tourist circuit and dramatise
the Nobel laureate's novels and poems on Tagore, who lived and
worked in Bengal and visited several other nations.
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