Georgetown : The Dramatics Arts Academy last evening pulled off a spectacular performance at the National Cultural Centre in dance, poetry and dramatic performance in celebration of 150th birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds extended appreciation to the Dramatic Arts Academy and the Indian High Commission for putting Raja aur Rani and Pariksha on stage.
The Prime Minister said that Tagore was an Indian National whom the government and people of India are proud of as he has made outstanding achievements to the dramatic arts with the work he produced.
“His productions sought to speak to all mankind and reflect the issues that appear in all societies…although he wrote successfully in many literary genres, he was first of all a poet…he has also been the author of several volumes of short story episodes and a number of novels…he left behind volumes of paintings and songs…indeed it is recognised that Tagore reshaped his region’s literature and music as he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and to be knighted,” Mr. Hinds said.
Indian High Commissioner, Subit Kumar Mandal said that the Indian Government has proudly noted that Guyana has joined the world wide celebrations to mark the birth anniversary of Tagore, ‘someone who chartered a course for Indian literature and music’.
Director of the plays, Neaz Subhan said that it is his fervent hope that their staging will serve to rekindle that passion that is seemingly stuck in the past.
Rabindranath Tagore, who died during World War 11, impacted and influenced many as novelist, a playwright, a composer, a painter and as a humanist as his metaphoric and poetic penmanship infused a sweet addiction inflicted by one’s hankering for his hypnotic and intensely provocative literature.
In 1913 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature which followed his knighting by King George V in 1915.
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