Tagore saw the partition as a cunning plan to stop the independence movement, and he aimed to rekindle Bengali unity and tar communalism. It was written - ironically - to protest the 1905 Partition of Bengal along communal lines: cutting off the Muslim-majority East Bengal from Hindu-dominated West Bengal was to avert a regional bloodbath. In 1971, Amar Shonar Bangla became the national anthem of Bangladesh. His music is an exemplary instance of 'kavya-geeti', a style of composition that later found widespread use in the music industries at Bombay and Calcutta. Yet about nine-tenths of his work was not bhanga gaan, the body of tunes revamped with "fresh value" from select Western, Hindustani, Bengali folk and other regional flavours "external" to Tagore's own ancestral culture. Some songs mimicked a given raga's melody and rhythm faithfully others newly blended elements of different ragas. They emulated the tonal colour of classical ragas to varying extents. Influenced by the thumri style of Hindustani music, they ran the entire gamut of human emotion, ranging from his early dirge-like Brahmo devotional hymns to quasi-erotic compositions. His songs are known as rabindrasangit ("Tagore Song"), which merges fluidly into his literature, most of which-poems or parts of novels, stories, or plays alike-were lyricised. The leading proponent of Bengali music is Rabindranath Tagore (known in Bengali as Robi Thakur and Gurudeb, the latter meaning "Respected Teacher" (in the Bengal of that time, the suffix 'deb' was an honorific, ascribed to people who enjoyed immense respect, but this title was primarily used by his students at Santiniketan, though many others did use the address/ ) Tagore was a prolific composer with around 2,230 songs to his credit. Notable in this devotional poetry is an earthiness that does not distinguish between love in its carnal and devotional forms some see connections between this and Tantra, which originated sometime in the middle of the first millennium CE.įorms Bishnupur Gharana
Another writer of the time was Vidyapati. Much of the early canon is devotional, as in the Hindu devotional songs of Ramprasad Sen a bhakta who captures the Bengali ethos in his poetic, rustic, and ecstatic vision of the Hindu goddess of time and destruction in her motherly incarnation, Ma Kali. The Middle Ages saw a mixture of Hindu and Islamic trends when the musical tradition was formalized under the patronage of Sultan and Nawabs and the powerful landlords baro bhuiyans. Then all the players and the coaches started singing the song, "Amra Korbo Joy" (Bangla version of the song 'Hum Honge Kamyab') as the jubilation surrounded the dressing room of the Bangla Tigers.The earliest music in Bengal was influenced by Sanskrit chants, and evolved under the influence of Vaishnav poetry such as the 13th-century Gitagovindam by Jayadeva, whose work continues to be sung in many eastern Hindu temples. "We have to enjoy it brothers, enjoy it," Rahim said at the start of the video posted by Bangladesh Cricket Board's official Twitter handle. Rahim couldn't control his emotions as he shouted and yelled in exuberance at the top of his voice.
Bangladesh beat New Zealand by 8 wickets in the first of the two-match series at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui and it was a historic moment in the visitors' cricketing history beating the World Test champions in their own backyard.Įxperienced batsman Mushfiqur Rahim, who was in the middle with skipper Mominul Haque to get his side across the line led Bangladesh's celebrations in the dressing room. 8 ranked side in the world, Bangladesh as they won their first-ever match, not just Tests, in New Zealand in 32 games across all formats. Bangladesh completed a famous win over New Zealand, beating them by 8 wickets in the first Test.