Tagore and RC Majumdar, 1926

 


Rabindranath Tagore reconnoitering Dhaka University premises in 1926 CE. On his right is the great historian Acharya Romesh Chandra Majumdar, a faculty of the university. 

If one reads the real history, one can easily see that the faksehoods that is being spread by the Islamic intelligentsia of Bangladesh about Tagore being against the establishment of Dhaka University. The people spreading this propaganda do not want a "malaun" to be the writer of their national anthem. The people spreading this propaganda are the same people who aided the Pakistan army in 1971 to execute Dhaka University massacre that took the lives of hundreds of students, professors and other staff. 


Image: The Daily Star Archive 






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