Songs of Tagore  (English, Electronic book text, Tagore Rabindranath)

I had two reasons to look for this book. One is the bard himself, and his songs, which I have heard from a Bengali neighbour since childhood. I have hummed along but have never understood the meaning of the words sung, the singer was always too immersed in the song to tell me.

Then it's the forward in the book by Sunil Gangopadhyay. I should say the late author. The translator, Ms. Aruna Chakravarti I understand is a former winner of the Sahitya Akademi award, and this shows in the excellen...