Tagore link in India, B'desh match
March 19, 2015 15:38
For a while today, India's only Nobel Laureate in literature, Rabindranath Tagore trended on Twitter.
Why you ask?
As India and Bangladesh played to win social media discussed how the same man -- Tagore - wrote the national anthems of both countries. Jana Gana Mana, the Indian anthem and Amar Sonar Bangla or My Golden Bengal, the Bangladesh anthem.
And FYI, Tagore also wrote the national anthem for Sri Lanka in Bengali, which was later translated into Sinhalese.
Why you ask?
As India and Bangladesh played to win social media discussed how the same man -- Tagore - wrote the national anthems of both countries. Jana Gana Mana, the Indian anthem and Amar Sonar Bangla or My Golden Bengal, the Bangladesh anthem.
And FYI, Tagore also wrote the national anthem for Sri Lanka in Bengali, which was later translated into Sinhalese.