Celebration of 150 Birthday of Rabindra Nath Tagore in Bangladesh
Ansari is scheduled to join Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in opening the main function of the birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital on Friday. Similarly a high level Bangladesh delegation, led by planning minister AK Khondker, reached Delhi to attend the celebration in India. The two countries decided to jointly celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of the world famous Bengali poet during prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to New Delhi last year. The two countries have chalked out various programmes to commemorate the poet who had written the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh. Bdnews24.com adds: Performances by Rabindra Sangeet maestros Rezwana Choudhury Bonna and Dwijen Choudhury will mark the two-day Delhi programme starting Saturday. They will be joined by Hindustani classical music vocalist Madhup Mudgal, who will present a Rabindra Sangeet recital in Hindi, the Indian Ministry of Culture said in a statement on Thursday. Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh will preside over the inaugural ceremony at the Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi, while Bangladesh planning minister A K Khandakar will attend it as chief guest. The chairperson of India’s ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, Sonia Gandhi, is also expected to be present as guest-of-honour.
An official of the Indian government said Khandakar would be accompanied by a 20-member delegation, comprising MPs, senior government officials and Tagore experts from...
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