'Romancing nature' with Tagore songs

India International Centre will come alive with 'Romancing Nature', an evening of Tagore songs by Kamalini Mukherjee. The event will be presented by SEHER in association with India International Center on June 7, at 7 pm at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre, New Delhi.

Mukherjee is known for Rabindra Sangeet across India and Bangladesh. Paying an ode to Tagore's love for nature, Kamalini, a student of South Point school, Kolkata aspires to take Tagore's music to a wider international audience, cutting across generations and geographical boundaries.

The concert will reflect Tagore's creative impulses which were deeply influenced by nature and the environment in which he lived. To him, nature is an entity much bigger than the individual parts of beauty that make it up. It is a moving spirit; a source of inspiration he drew much of his philosophy from.

Kamalini has performed extensively in India, US, Canada, and Bangladesh. In 2013, she went to Mauritius on a mission to teach and spread Tagore's music as a joint initiative between Government of Mauritius and UNESCO, in commemoration of Tagore's 150th birth anniversary.

The evening's concert will be a tapestry of Tagore's songs to illustrate the deep connection between the poet and nature.