Protest song to Bangladesh’s anthem, and now Assam row: The politics, poetry of Tagore’s ‘Amar Shonar Bangla’

Ironically, a song that the Nobel laureate wrote in 1905 to call for the unity of Bengal amid the British move to partition ...
Catholic News Agency

‘My songs will be sung in churches’: A Bangladeshi sister’s living legacy

Sister Amiya spent 42 years as a teacher and has been a passionate composer of sacred music. The Bangladeshi religious has ...

‘Learnt Amar Sonar Bangla as a child!’ says bewildered 74-yr-old Congress worker in Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma’s crosshairs

Bidhu Bhushan Das, a lifelong Seva Dal activist, sang the Tagore song -- now Bangladesh national anthem -- at an event in ...
The Business Standard

Singing of 'Amar Sonar Bangla' at Assam Congress event triggers political uproar in India

The incident took place on 27 October in Assam’s Sribhumi district, part of the Bengali-speaking Barak Valley that borders Bangladesh. A video from a Congress Seva Dal meeting showed 80-year-old senio ...