Mungpoo | Mongpu | Rabindra Museum | Rabindra Bhawan | Tagore’s Bungalow | মংপুতে রবীন্দ্রনাথ

Mungpoo is a small village under the Kurseong Sub-division of Darjeeling district, Mungpoo (also spelled Mongpu) is specially famous for Rabindranath’s bungalow or Rabindra bhawan or Rabindra Museum is about 25 Km from Darjeeling and 54 Km from Siliguri.Mungpo is well known for its cinchona and medicinal plant cultivation. In the year 1864, the first Government Quinine factory was set up in Mungpoo and this is exactly the reason why Mungpoo is popular. However, what added to its popularity when the Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore visited the place quite often between 1938 and 1940 at the invitation of poet and novelist Maitreyi Devi, the wife of quinologist Dr. M.M.Sen. Later on, the bungalow was converted into Rabindra Bhavan. It is a museum containing Tagore’s photographs, paintings, writings and other of his memoirs. On visiting the place one can find Tagore’s belonging’s exactly where he had kept them, his tools. Artworks by the Nobel laureate cover up the walls. There is a caretaker named Shishir, who is a Nepali but has a better Bengali vocabulary than many Bengali speaking people. One can find him chanting the poet’s compositions all day which depicts his vast knowledge about the poet. This bungalow is a must visit for the ones with a soft corner for aesthetics and literature. It gives the person an insight into the life of one of the greatest role models that India has ever seen.
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Music in this video:
Song: Dariye acho tumi amar Ganer Opare
Lyricist: Rabindranath Tagore
Song cover credit : Badshahi Travel Vlogs
Song Series: Tagore on Sitar
Videography credit : Badshahi Travel Vlogs
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