Friday, March 5, 2010

Tagore & I

Finally found the lyrics to the first ever rabindrageet i learned. yesterday. some guy called Chatterji[i don't remember his first name] taught me the song in his out of tune voice. he was just a guy in my class, not a friend. or maybe he was. in retrospect everyone seems to have been one. in one way or the other.

there was this bong girl in my college i was infatuated with.and it was to "patao"[woo] this girl that i decided to learn a bangla song. the best way to get to a woman's heart, i had learned by then, was through her ears!!

well, i did accomplish what i set out for. and today she is married with three kids & settled. her husband i hear is a naval officer.

am still single. but thanks to her i fell in love with rabindra sangeet.

and here is the lyrics of the song i have never heard but in my own voice.

ektuku chowa lage
ektuku kotha shuni
tai diye mone mone...
rochimomo falguni

ektuku chowa lage
ektuku kotha shuni

kichu polasher nesha
kichu ba chapai mesha
tai diye shure shure
ronge rashi jaal buni
rochimomo falguni...

ektuku chowa lage
ektuku kotha shuni

jetuku kachete ashi khoniker fake fake
chokito moner kone shoponer chobi ake
jetuku jaire dure bhabna kapai shure
tai niye jai bela nupurero taal buni
rochimomo falguni...

ektuku chowa lage
ektuku kotha shuni
tai diye mone mone rochimomo falguni

ektuku chowa lage
ektuku kotha shuni

In love I learn.

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