No aura of Rabindranath in Rabindra Mela
SILCHAR, Jan 18: The first Bengali Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, is lost in the glittering lights and cacophony of sounds and in the midst of the hue and cry of visitors in the historic mela, now going on in Mela ground in Hailakandi, named after him. The total impression one gets after a round of the fair is quite disappointing. There is no aura of serenity or solemnity, having lost its relevance and historicity. Although it is named after the Bengali polymath, the fair does not have any relation with the great poet, unlike other two fairs of Barak Valley – Gandhi Mela, which starts on January 30, the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, in Silchar and Netaji Mela, which begins on January 23, the birth anniversary of Subash Chandra Bose, in Karimganj. The fair generally begins on the last week of December every year but no body knows when it ends.
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