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Shilaidaha (Bangla:শিলাইদহ) is a place in Kumarkhali Upazila of Kushtia District in Bangladesh. The place is famous for Shilaidaha Kuthibari— a country house made by Dwarkanath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore lived a part of life here and created some of his memorable poems while living here. Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা, IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit. ... Kumarkhali is an upazila in the Kushtia District in south-western Bangladesh. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Dwarkanath Tagore (Bangla:দ্বারকানাথ ঠাকুর, Darokanath Å¢hakur) (1794-1846), one of the earliest entrepreneurs from India, has been remembered by the posterity for an altogether different reason: that of being the grandfather of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). ... Rabindranath Tagore ( ; Bangla: ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj (syncretic Hindu monotheist) philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...


 

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