Hason Raja

Musical Artist

1854 – 1922

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Who was Hason Raja?

Hason Raja, was a Sylheti poet, mystic philosopher and folk-song writer and composer. He gained international recognition few years after his death, when Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore mentioned him in his lectures at Oxford University. Tagore said; “ We realise it through admiration and love, through hope that soars beyond the actual, beyond our own span of life into an endless time wherein we live of all men.” and “It is a village poet of East Bengal who preaches in a song the philosophical doctrine that the universe has its reality in its relation to the Person. ”

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Born
Dec 21, 1854
Sunamganj District
Nationality
  • Bangladesh
Profession
Died
Dec 6, 1922

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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