Dismayed at the dilapidated state of Rabindranath Tagore’s dilapidated ancestral house in a remote village of Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district, a Kolkata-based socio-cultural organisation has shot off an SOS to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention for conservation of great poet’s house.
“As the country celebrates Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary, the Nobel laureate remains unsung and unrecognised in Pandua village in coastal Odisha which once was his home.
“Last Sunday a six-member team paid a visit to the village and we were shocked to find the governmental insensitivity and neglect meted out to Tagore’s house”, said Utpal Roy, secretary of ‘Diganta’, a Kolkata-based organisation.
The bard’s ancestral house at the village under Kujang tehsil in Jagatsinghpur faces the imminent threat of being reduced to rubble in the absence of any conservation effort, he said.
Full report
here Kalinga Times
No comments:
Post a Comment