“Please accept my prayer. ‘Geetabitan’ is the most precious shelter of my life. When I hide at times, in search of relief – where I delve deep in search of solace and where I plunge in search of expressions for emotions, which are, even at this age, new to me. It is from “Geetabitan”, I found the courage to explore and sing all of it.
No need to mention that it was not at all an easy task. But as because I felt my Poet God’s presence throughout the path, as because ‘He’ was there with me all the way, inspiring me by muttering the ‘His’ bravely words in my mind, guiding me by my hands when I felt weak; at last the final day came, when I proudly announce that ‘Yes’, I have completed offering my prayers. My God, please accept it.”
And as a serious and devoted performer of Tagore songs, she thought it was her duty to pay the homage to the great poet and that could only be achieved by worshipping him with all of his own creations.
For a long time she had been thinking of a prayer which no other could give ‘Him’. Meanwhile, she felt the absence of a complete archive of his musical creations which will not only help the 'Tagore song' singers and lovers, but also the Tagore researchers from the entire world. So, why not go for a total set of recorded Geetabitan!
Therefore she started that Herculean task and that was not merely a challenge but her melodic prayer to ‘His’ creations. |