The Exhibition on life and works of great Indian poet and Nobel laureate in literature, Rabindranath Tagore, was inaugurated on June 11, 2022 at Khalil Gibran Museum in Bsharri by Ambassador of India Dr Suhel Ajaz Khan, Mayor of Bsharri Mr. Fredy Kayrouz, Head of Gibran National Committee Mr. Joseph Feninos, and Director of Museum Mr. Joseph Geagea.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This is the first time an exhibition on the life and works of Tagore is being organized in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In his address, Ambassador Dr Khan thanked the Gibran Museum and Gibran National Committee for hosting the Exhibition.Ambassador Khan mentioned about the connect between the two famous contemporary literary giants, Rabindranath Tagore and Gibran Khalil Gibran. Ambassador said, \u201cGibran would have loved Tagore to visit Bsharri, a town that he loved so much, where he was born and decided to rest eternally. Happy, today Tagore made to Bsharri\u201d. He termed the Exhibition as, \u201cmeeting of the two giants after over a century\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Comparing Khalil Gibran and Tagore, Ambassador Khan said, \u201c Both of them were from \u201cEast\u201dfrom \u201cOrient\u201d and yet they chose to address their western audience in their own language, English. Both of them were from the countries under foreign occupation at that time; Lebanon under Ottoman rule while India under British rule. Both of them had seen suffering and pain of their people, specially due to famines, in Lebanon and in Bengal from where Tagore came. Yet they decided to give their people a message of hope, peace, freedom and enlightenment\u201d. Ambassador also added that both of them had profound impact on each other and, \u201cIn an unknowing manner, they complemented and completed each other\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ambassador Khan also recited Tagore’s famous Poem, “Where the mind is without fear and head is held high….” . Ambassador Khan spoke about Tagore\u2019s teachings and his philosophy and also recited a line from his famous Bengali composition,”Jodi tor dak shune keu na ase tobe ekla cholo re\u201d, meaning, if no one follows u, walk alone!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Head of Gibran National Committee Mr. Joseph Feninos in his address, said, \u201c Between Tagore and Gibran there is a cloud of intellectual partnership at the level of expressions and the overlap of phrases, conventions and concepts, as each of them addressed them to express an experience that moves within a subjective framework far from letters and words, and a window into the self.\u201d He added, \u201cTagore in his poetry collections, especially \u201cThe Offering of Songs-Geetanjali\u201d from which he read on one of his evenings in New York, converges on many humanitarian issues, with Gibran the teacher in the book \u201cThe Prophet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Referring to a portrait made by Gibran of Tagore Mr. Feninios said, \u201cIt is no secret that Gibran, after listening to one of Tagore’s evenings in New York 1921, took the pencil and left him a souvenir that his museum still embraces, and said in it, \u201cAlthough Tagore’s face was tired that evening, it remains what he represents, Greatest Living.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Mr. Feniniosalso said that both Gibran and Tagore represent Lebanon and India to the world and give a message of pluralism, diversity, tolerance and the values of freedom, justice, and testimony to the truth.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Mr. Joseph Geagea, the Museum Director mentioned about many meetings Gibran and Tagore had starring from December 1916 till 1921 and recalled their mutual respect and admiration. The Museum Director also informed that some of Gibran\u2019s books have been translated in Malayalam, a language of Indian State of Kerala and that his most famous book, \u201cThe Prophet\u201d has been translated in Hindi.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
As a special gesture, the Museum also exhibited other items depicting Gibran’s strong connection with India, including Gibran’s portrait of Tagore, a book presented to Gibran by Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti & a book on Gibran by Osho.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A local priest also informed the gathering that that according to tradition one of their local prayers isderived from Tagore’s writing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Exhibition will be open for public from June 12 till June 17, 2022. All visitors are invited to visit and know about the two great poets, writers, painters and philosophers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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