OUR OWN NATIONAL ANTHEM : While the UNESCO has declared our national anthem as one of the best, I would like to share its heritage. Tagore translated this beautiful song from Bengali into English titled : Morning Song of India, he also set it to music. This was done while he was staying in in Besant Theosophical College,Madanapalle, in Chittor District in Andhra Pradesh. The National Anthem was written byTagore in 1911 and sung at the annual session of the Indian National Congress at Calcutta on December 27 that year. The tune was composed by Margaret Cousins, wife of educationist, Dr. James Henry Cousins, who composed the tune for the Morning Song of India. Dr. Cousins was then the Principal of the Madanapalle College that was established by Dr. Annie Besant. Madanapalle was also the birthplace of the well known 20thc philosopher J. Krishnamurti, and the base town now for the well known Krishnamurti Foundation school - Rishi Valley. I have posted a photo in front of the very cottage where the translation happened, and also one of the original writing of Tagore - Morning Song of India.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:37:21 +0000
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