Indian minister to attend Nazrul's birthday celebrations
India does not want to repeat a mistake it made last year when it launched poet Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary celebrations jointly with Bangladesh but forgot to honour poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
A senior cabinet minister is scheduled to travel to Dhaka in the second half of next month to attend the 113th birth anniversary celebrations of poet Nazrul, sources said.
The trip will follow that of Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who is scheduled to visit Bangladesh in the first week of May to attend the closing ceremony of the year-long Tagore celebrations. The events related to Nazrul will take place in Dhaka on May 24-25.
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