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Songs by Tagore are popularly known in his native Bengal as Rabindra sangeet. I have copied my posting from the poetry section to here and added a couple of more upbeat tunes by him.

here are couple of Tagore songs you may enjoy in his native Bangla (with English translation)

Matir Buker Majhe by Kabir Suman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxhA_paNpQg

Achhe dukhkho by Lopamudra Mitra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrrqmqotT8M

and Tagore himself singing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvTim1Kg_F8

Momo Chitte by Lopamudra Mitra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lL_P_ATJuc

This is a very popular tune often set to dance and the lyrics go something like
Who dances there
Birth and Death side by side
Laughter and tears
Oh what joy what joy

...although not necessarily in the correct order.

Ekla Cholo Re by Amitabh Bachhan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VynEbbXiasQ

Amitabh Bachhan is Bollywood's biggest legend and he sounds amazingly like Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe) when he is singing. AB's father was a renowned poet himself. He sings here in two languages: the original as was written by Tagore and in AB's own language. This song is another very popular inspirational song by Tagore and the refrain goes:

If none shall come on hearing your call
then walk alone , walk alone

Thanks for introducing Tagore in a new dimension, Kush! I shall get through each of these. Gitanjali by him is inspired - one of the best books I own.

Tchoc is right - every cell of you is tuned into music:-)

If none shall come on hearing your call
then walk alone, walk alone

This reminds me of an old discussion about how we are lone wolves, and we have to keep howling for our pack.

Either a wolf is a lonewolf, in this case it is alone and can not howl with its pack. Or either a wolf is not alone and therefore, it can howl with its pack, but can not be a lonewolf. There, the lonewolf howls alone, walks alone. A lone wolf is alone by definition.

If I ever said that I am a lonewolf it is only because for as long as I can remember I never felt being entirely part of a pack of some sort. I did not said that I was a lonewolf because I am a wolf nor because I am alone. It was all about the packs and the feelings of being entirely part of a pack. The nearest thing closest to a pack to me is the entire humanity. It is much a too large definition of a pack for all the packs - great and small- inside this pack, so I am never fully included in packs even though I would like to be. It works both sides, this sort of feelings. I am not judgmental about that. I mean c'est la vie!. And that is all. I mean being part of a pack or not : I do not think one is more correct than the other. I just wish that people could act less as warewolves and more as homo sapiens. It is easier for me to wish this, being a lonewolf, than it is for a wolves gang. Wolves howling with their pack have to live according to the reality of the pack first. The reality of the pack can be sometimes hiden very low in the reptilian brain and having nothing to do with the new more subtile parts of the brain, that came with the evolution.

Ey! The main thing with life is about staying alive after all. I guess all this is natural.

So howl, babies, howl.

I'll have a little more music in the poetry thread. I'm not very afficionada of the Bollywood fashion. The only things that I like are the beauty of the actors and the dances.

Tchoc is right - every cell of you is tuned into music:-)

Those descriptions are best left for those who create music, I am only a consumer. Music is a hobby along with a couple of other things.

I follow you Tchoc, but I identify with the lonewolf archetype too, same as probably many LC fans. The closest thing to a pack for a lonewolf might be other lone wolves. That's why we come here, n'est-ce pas?

Aaaaaaaooooooooooooooooww.

I meant every cell tuned to a (different) music, like a receptor not a like a transmittor. And now I add like a relay - also.

There is such a thing as the Lonewolf Archetype, in English, hihihi, I did not know this. I am not really a lonewolf otherwise why would I come here (when I can email you? ). I am a gregarious individual, but at a distance, this is why.

Ah! I came here because of the charisma of the star, and I am glued to this attractive force. Like a moth on a still yellow light.

But OK. Let say that lonewolves can form a pack. Why not? Let say that evolution gave birth to a new kind of wolves. The gregarious solitary cowboy canis lupus.

Haha it is interesting how discussions evolve into unforeseen directions. Just for the record I ain't a lone wolf and I am not howlin' for my pack ! I post about music because it is a hobby of mine same as I post about tennis/sports on another forum and about science on yet another one. A cigar is just a cigar, friends !

Are you a wolf, rugged and misunderstood, or more like the introspective mole? Take the Animal In You personality test !

http://www.animalinyou.com/test.php

Now Kush is just a cigar... and I feel like Alice in Wonderland.

The exact quote is :sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And it was attributed to Freud not to Jung. But if you say that you are, you are. It is a non-smoking section, so I guess that all the cigars and the cigarettes of the forum prefer to gather over here.

Back to our packs. Wolves and cigars and cigarettes.

I just read that a solitary dolphin was adopted by a pack of whales. Scientists can not explain this. So you see... We are not so weard, he?