kolkata indians seem to be rediscovering and rebonding with tagore 150 years after he was born at a time when prime minister manmohan singh who holds the culture portfolio has taken a keen interest in celebrations of the bards 150th birth anniversary the latest to join the bardwagon is oscarwinning lyricist gulzar he is the mostsought after person for the culturatti in kolkatabagla akademy has decided to invite gulzar for its baishey srabone programme at rabindra sadan thats tagores death anniversary on the 150th birth year a special tribute is also being planned on this day which is likely to fall in julythe interest is thanks to the film nauka doobi for which gulzar has translated rabindranath tagores poetry that was crooned by sherya ghosal as the rituparno ghosh flick sets to hit the screens this summer the hindi version of the same film called kahmakash and directed by subhas ghai also is ready to take on the cinegoertagores birth anniversary and the film seem to have renewed kolkatas interest in gulzar who is currently translating the nobel laureates literary works for a hardcover poetry and a childrens shortstory book in hindi and englishgulzar is believed to have taken up the project to introduce more and more children across the country to tagores works the current generation he feels is painfully unaware of tagore and dont even care to teach their children to the greatness of the creations of the first noneuropean winner of the nobel prize for literatureearlier gulzar had planned to reproduce selected short stories written by tagore in a 15hourlong programme that would be run in small capsules on doordarshan dd but the project fell through as he got into a similar activity on munshi premchandgulzar has now approached the central government to include his translations of tagores works which have been published in a periodical called chak mak in school curricula