May 7, 2009

Happy Birthday Rabi, who sang the Upanishad.

I am reading this wonderful book called "Travels with Herodotus" by Ryszard Kapuscinski. I was reading the fourth chapter titled "Rabi sings the Upanishads". I found the title interesting before I started reading it. Only after reading the first paragraph did I realize the author is talking about Rabindranath Tagore, who read Upanishads with his dad at Sunrise and that how Tagore relished this activity of his childhood. The author refers to Tagore's life and draws paralles with Herodotus (which, we shall discuss on an another day). I finished this chapter and went ahead with the day.

Before I left to the office, someone near my house wanted to know where Rabindranath school is located. I corrected him saying it is Tagore School and not Rabindranath school and directed him.

On my way to Office, I remembered I had to inform my colleague about Rabindra Sethu in Kolkata and how Tagore is made to remember through symbols such as these.

I reach office and log on to google.co.in to find that Google's logo has rabindranath's sketch today. I click on it to discover that today is his birthday! I thought it was a nice way to give him a tribute.

It is when one comes across things collectively like this, that he/she is more eager to appreciate rather than find deeper meaning.

3 comments:

Guru said...

Um.. May be it was the day to salute him, on ther other hand, it could be just that you noticed it all in one day.

A friend of mine got married to a girl from North Karnataka and he was surprised on one day as to how many things he came across which are related to North Karnataka. He has been observing the same everyday, but he had failed to notice it till he discovered that his wife is from North Karnataka.

I think, it is our cognition combined with coincidences :)

srikanth said...

A few months from now you might buy a pair of elite spectacles, listen to a maverick ex-cricketer blabber on TV, lose a Vadivel CD and get to run 10Km - and then realise who's birthday it is.
Believe me, that will be appreicated.

Rafiki said...

Hey, this happens often. When you don't know something you are ignorant to its presence. When you become aware then it kind of strikes you blatantly in your face and makes you wonder how you were unaware of it so long.