Shelaidaha is a famous place of Rabindranath Tagore. It is situated in Kumarkhali Upozila of the district in Bangladesh. It is also known as Kuthibari. It is an old house made by Dwarkanath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore spent a small part of his life in this house. When he was here he wrote some of his great writings, such as Katha o Kahini, Sonar Tari, Chaitali, Chitra, etc. He translated some works of his writings in English here. He wrote most of his poems from Kheya Naibedya and most of the songs from Geetimalya and Gitanjali. He starts his translate Gitanjali into English in the year of 1912 which helps him to earn the Nobel Prize in 1913 for literature. Now a mansion has been created in Shelaidaha named Tagore's lodge or Kuthibari. In 1890 Tagore comes with his family to stay here in Shelaidaha. They stayed here over 10 years from 1891-1901. It is a country side home. It was made by Maharshi Debendranath Tagore. The Tagore Estate was under a Bank he and his family was the debtor of the bank, later on the bank auctioned this property and it becomes a possession of Zamindar of Bhagyakul of Munshiganj’ s Roy family. This house was a part of Roy’s family till the Zamindari system abolished. Then in 1958 it comes under the Rajshahi Divitional commissioner Syed Murtaza Ali. And it is coloured with red colour like the other Zamindar houses of the Estate. The main building is a three floored building. It is constructed with brick, corrugated tin sheets and timbers. The building is a shape with Pyramid along with terrace. The sum of the total area is about 11 acres. The building is in the middle of the compound. The Department of archeology completed the reformation of the building under Ministry of cultural Affairs. This house is now using as a museum. Here the bed, pen, wardrobe, lawn mower, iron chest, framed pictures and the famous of Tagore’s Panshi etc. 25th of Bengali month Boishakh is observed as the birthday of Rabindranath. The whole country comes to this place to see the memory of Rabindranath Tagore. This festival is five days long. The people from all over Bangladesh comes to see this place to find their historical interests. Not only from Bangladesh but also from different countries of the world comes to visit this place. Discussion, Fair, cultural program, staging of his plays actually includes to the main program.
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