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Controversy on Saving Purity of Tagore Songs

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From: India Abroad
Date: 19960816
Author:Indranil K. Ghosh

Indranil K. Ghosh
India Abroad
08-16-1996
Controversy on Saving Purity of Tagore Songs.

West Bengal's cultural establishment is troubled by a debate on how to ensure the musical purity of the songs of the Nobel literature Rabindranath Tagore. The outcome of the debate is expected to affect music companies now making easy money recording and marketing such songs.

Central to the debate is a recent fiat from Visvabharati, the university that Tagore founded mostly with his Nobel Prize money nearly 75 years ago in a pastoral sheeting at Bolpur near here. The university, which owns the copyright on ...

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