2 days back the CM inaugurated the online edition of Rabindranath Tagore’s complete works at the ongoing Kolkata Book Fair (more on the fair in another post). The site is located here [http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr.org].
About 18000 pages constitute the bard’s works. It’s however an ongoing project in which the works of stalwarts like Bankim Chandra, Vidyasagar, Mir Mosharraf Hussein and others will also be included in course of time.
Once done, the whole project will not only be a timeless wonder, it will also help every Bengali-knowing person across the globe to use as needed.
The project is being assisted by BESU and IIT, Kgp among others. Here is a small excerpt of a page in the site.
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Its ironic I see this here, cos the Calcutta Film Festival is currently going on and TAGORE`s work is being honoured there and I was reading a review of a Fatih Akin film on http://www.chromehotel.in/happenings/2010/11/kolkata-film-festival/