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Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913
Satyajit Ray documentary on Tagore, 1961
contemporary rendition of Tagore song
contemporary Tribute to Tagore
Song Unsung
The song that I came to sing remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my
instrument.
The time has not come
true, the words have not been rightly set;
only there is the agony of wishing in my heart.
The blossom has not opened; only the wind is sighing by.
I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice;
only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before
my house.
The livelong day has
passed in spreading his seat on the floor;
but the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my
house.
I live in the hope of
meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.
Sanskrit script
Rabindranath Tagore with Rani Mahalanbis, wife of P. C. Mahalanobis to his left
and daughter-in-law Pratima to his right