Protest song to Bangladesh’s anthem, and now Assam row: The politics, poetry of Tagore’s ‘Amar Shonar Bangla’

Ironically, a song that the Nobel laureate wrote in 1905 to call for the unity of Bengal amid the British move to partition ...

‘Learnt Amar Sonar Bangla as a child!’ says bewildered 74-yr-old Congress worker in Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s crosshairs

Bidhu Bhushan Das, a lifelong Seva Dal activist, sang the Tagore song -- now Bangladesh national anthem -- at an event in ...
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Singing of 'Amar Sonar Bangla' at Assam Congress event triggers political uproar in India

The incident took place on 27 October in Assam’s Sribhumi district, part of the Bengali-speaking Barak Valley that borders Bangladesh. A video from a Congress Seva Dal meeting showed 80-year-old senio ...

Taking it seriously

An old Bangla song softly lingers through the halls of the India International Centre in Delhi, where memories of the ...