Write a Letter to Your Friend Describing Your Feeling After Reading a Book
25 May, 2015
Dear Jamiya,
Yesterday, I got a copy of the English version of Gitanjali by Tagore and read a good number of its poems. I wonder how poems like these can be written at all. Previously I read Gitanjali in Bengali but I had no previous occasion to read the English version of it, which won for Tagore the most coveted Nobel Prize and made the first Nobel Prize winner in Asia.
Now I am reading both the versions. I should have reasons enough to feel some satisfaction about it. Gitanjali means song of offerings. These are offerings to God Almighty. It is beyond my power to describe the literary excellence of the book. What has impressed me most is the noble ideas of the poet.
The habit of reading Gitanjali has come to stay with me, as I am getting joy and inspiration from it. It teaches me love of God. If you have not read the book, take my advice to read it. Wishing to hear from you. No more today.
Yours ever,
Sujon
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