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Test your Bard basics

By Purnendu Bikash Sarkar Purbachal

TT Bureau Published 11.05.18, 12:00 AM

1. A total of 103 poems from anthologies including Noibedya, Kheya, Sishu and Chaitali went into the making of what?

2. Indira Devi Chaudhurani did about 12 per cent of this very important work, Kangali Charan Sen did 10 per cent and Sailaja Ranjan Majumder eight per cent. What are we talking of?

3. How is Shashthicharan 
Debsharman better known?

4. In the black and white picture to the left is a young Tagore. Who is on his lap?

5. What is significant about the Tagore poem Tomar Sristir Path Rekhechho Akirno Kori?

6. Which was the most rewritten or edited of Tagore’s plays?

7. Who was the first to address Rabindranath Tagore as 
Gurudev?

8. Tagore formally started Visva Bharati with the proceeds from the prize money of the Nobel Prize he received in 1913 for the publication of his book of poems Gitanjali. The college also became a centre of Brahmo learning in this period. Who was the first vice-chancellor of Visva Bharati?

9. Which Rabindrasangeet was never sung before Tagore died?

10. Tagore painted more than 3,000 pictures, including the one above. When did he start painting?

Send your answers to The Telegraph Salt Lake, 6 Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta 700001 or saltlake@abpmail.com by May 14, 2018. 
The reader whose all-correct answer reaches us first will receive a token of appreciation.

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