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Tagore songs in French

(From left) Pabitra Sarkar, French consul general Damien Syed, Madhuchhanda Dutta, Soumitra Chatterjee and Ramananda Bandyopadhyay at the release of Rendezvous, an album of Rabindrasangeet in Bengali and French, at the Press Club.The songs have been sung by Rupankar and Dutta, who teaches 

TT Bureau Published 15.09.17, 12:00 AM
(From left) Pabitra Sarkar, French consul general Damien Syed, Madhuchhanda Dutta, Soumitra Chatterjee and Ramananda Bandyopadhyay at the release of Rendezvous, an album of Rabindrasangeet in Bengali and French, at the Press Club.The songs have been sung by Rupankar and Dutta, who teaches French in Calcutta University. Chatterjee welcomed the initiative by Bhavna Records, pointing out that there has not been enough experimental work on Tagore songs in other languages. Sarkar pointed to the difficulties of matching French lyrics to the tunes' meter. Syed referred to Tagore's correspondence with Romain Rolland and Andre Gide's translation of some poems in Gitanjali, "a monument of world literature". Picture by Anup Bhattacharya
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