Now- how often are you going to see this ? :wtg:

[CC1981]

Wow.

[Sooda]

Re: Now- how often are you going to see this ? :wtg: Shes done a decent job!

[CC1981]

Re: Now- how often are you going to see this ? :wtg: Clearest pronounciation i've ever heard in a non-fluent white person!

[Gaurav]

Re: Now- how often are you going to see this ? :wtg: :wtg: :wtg: :wtg:

[Guest dada_rocks]

Re: Now- how often are you going to see this ? :wtg: btw this song in litral sense is eulogy of british monarchy..but then how u feel about it matters more than litral meaning...

[CC1981]

Re: Now- how often are you going to see this ? :wtg:

btw this song in litral sense is eulogy of british monarchy

Its an allegation that Tagore himself never corroborrated.

[Guest dada_rocks]

Re: Now- how often are you going to see this ? :wtg: Here are the facts. In Calcutta session of INC which began on 16 Dec 1911 King George V was to be guest and he was to be there on second day of the seeion please note second day not first day. INC had approached Tagore for a welcome poem for the king and he penned those and handed it to INC. Yeats one of the admirer of Tagore claimed he was very disturbed over this request of poem of welcome [ Translation he may not have wanted to write eulogy but bottomline is he did] . Anyway I am not going to read much into this given he was not averse to accepting Knighthood which he later on relinquished ( after jalianwala bagh massacre). So him writing some poem eulogising king doesn't seem out of question. I wud have laughed if someone had said Subhash chandra Bose penned some euology somewhere for king which is not the case here. Point to note u invoke God in any conference on very first day in the beginning given tagore was tallest of personality in litaray world in those times so one can't really claim some other poem or verse was given precedence over Tagore's poem for the opening day solilcitation of God's good-will mercy whatever. Tagore's poem was sung in the beginning of second day which was fully booked for King's program, as a token of introduction to the King. Spin doctors now claim that once again God was invoked on second day of session but to any impartial eye that claim sounds vacuuous we don't see practice of invoking almighty everyday in any conference anywhere unless of course it's religious conference then well every session is kind of invokation of GOD. BTW Tagore didn't refute the claim either for quite some time so if any refutation came it was an after-thought. Anyway for me my feeling matters while singing any song. As tulsidas would say, "Jaaki rahi bhawana jaisi, prabhu murat dekhi teen taisi." PS: CC by claiming that it was not eulogy of King u are putting believers section of indian in yet another quandary viz a viz Jan Gan Man too so far only Vande Mataram has that distincition. Technically speaksing they should have problem with this kind of Godly eulogy of King too but historically it has been seen they don't find much problem with worshipping white one way or another. It's the hindu symbolism they find objectionable. Even during indepdence socalled muslim league indepedence movement leaders at best used to be indifferent towards throwing the yoke of british rule. Jinnah saheb used to get active only when sensing INC is closing in to achieve sthg. Even Sir Sayayad Ahmed Khan had no problem with English rule. PPS: We don't have to show our heros above every kind of reproach. It's oke if he wrote that as King's eulogy bottomline is that how we perceive it as of today. It's a damn beautiful verse to say the least.

[Holysmoke]

Re: Now- how often are you going to see this ? :wtg: how many of you stood up?