West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on 08-08-2013
released a commemorative volume of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali
(Song Offerings) in 14 languages. August 7 is Tagore’s death anniversary.
Gitanjali is a collection of poems by the Indian poet
Rabindranath Tagore. The original Bengali collection of 157 poems was published
on August 14, 1910. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of
103 English poems of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems
first published in November 1912 by the India Society of London. It contained
translations of 53 poems from the original Bengali Gitanjali, as well as 50
other poems which were from his drama Achalayatan and eight other books of
poetry - mainly Gitimalya (17 poems), Naivedya (15 poems) and Kheya (11 poems)
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