Lyricist Guizar and Planning Commission member Dr Narendra Jadhav at the release of Jadhav's Marathi translation ofRabindranath Tagore's poems at IUCAA, University of Pune, on Saturday. Express Photo

Guizar releases Marathi translation of Tagore poemsEXPRESS NEWS SERVICENOVEMBER 20

"KAVIGURU RabindranathTagore's poetry has been instu-mental in shaping up the coureof my life and I want the sameto happen to the present gener-ation. There is an immediateneed to educate the presentgeneration about geniuses likeTagore and Kalidas," saidGuizar at the book release of Dr

. Narendra Jadhav's Marathi:;i;'anshtion 'of '.Raii'itldra~ath

Tagore's poems. Dr Jadhav hastranslated 151 of Tagore'spoems in his book BhayshunyaChitt Jeth.

Speaking at the occasion, Dr

Jadhav recounted how Tagore'sGitanjali had inspired him tostart reading Tagore's work."Tagore's work has been appre-ciated worldwide. However,very few of his poems havebeen translated in Marathi andthus we have been deprieved ofTagore's treasures," said Jadhav.

Jadhav has mainly translat-ed the poems from Tagore'sEnglish translations of his ownpoems. "Tagore has writtenaround 2,500 poems andalmost an equalrnumber ofsongs. He has written on differ-ent moods like love, worship,swadeshi and even death. 99per cent of Marathi people donot even know that Tagore

wrote a brilliant five-pagepoem on Shivaji Maharaj,"added Jadhav,

After releasing the book,Guizar also spoke about howTagore's poetry had been instru-mental in shaping the course ofhis life. "As a child, I startedreading story books till I got myhands on one of Tagore's booksone fine day. I have had a longassociation with Bengali litera-ture. It inspired me in such away that from that day mychoice of books underwent acomplete change. I learnt toread in Bengali so that I couldunderstand Tagore's poems bet-ter," said Guizar.

Pointing at the importance

in educating the present gener-ation about people like Tagore,GuIzar said, "I am not againstchildren learning aboutShakespeare. But in theprocess, they should not missout on the magic of Tagore andKalidas. There is a need ofintroducing their works in ourchildren's text books today.Even I am trying to translateTagore's work and bring out abook for children. And I amthankful to Dr Jadhav becausehis work w,ill be able to help mein my translation too."

Jadhav's book has been pub-lished by Granthali and sketch-es have been done by AnandJog, Chairman of Darode-Jog,