Voice of Bengal!
What Rabindranath did for literature, he tried to do the same for music as well. He respected the inviolable sanctity of both classical and folk music, and took from each things that suited his purpose. Each season, each aspect of the Bengali landscape and every undulation of the human heart have found their voices in his songs. They are sung at religious gatherings and at concert halls. Patriots have walked to the gallows with his song on their lips; young lovers unable to express the depth of their feelings render his songs and feel the weight of their inadequate articulacy relieved.
Tagore once said, "Whatever fate may be in store for my poems, stories and plays, I know for certain that the Bengali race will need my songs, they will sing my songs at every Bengali home, in the fields and by the rivers... I feel as if music wells up from within some unconscious depth of my mind, that is why it has certain completeness."
Tagore's role in the innovation of educational ideas has been eclipsed by his fame as a poet. He was a pioneer in the field of education. In the last forty years of his life he was content to run a school in a humble rural surrounding, even when he had achieved fame no Bengali had known before.
“Amar Sonar Bangla” became the national anthem of Bangladesh. The song touches all and inspires us to unconditionally love and appreciate the motherland.
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