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This book is the first ever attempt for an English rendering in fully-rhymed lyrical poetry of the Brajabuli original of Rabindranath Tagore’s Bhanusingher Pada bali: admired all over Bengal and India for its exquisite verses on Radha-Krishna amour. The melodiously-tuned poems -- sung as well as danced by all the classical and contemporary genres in our land – is only dimly understood, as far meaning goes, due to its old literary style. This book takes up all the 22 songs that Tagore composed with ‘Bhanusingha’ or ‘Bhanu’ pen-name in Brajabuli language and makes them available in English for a universal readership: complete with its resonance, alliteration, metrical pattern and internal rhyme. It carries also an authentic and comprehensive Introduction on the background and context of Tagore’s valuable work.