In his lifetime, Rabindranath Tagore penned some rare ‘nonsense’ rhymes numbering about 300, in seven slim books. These verses have seldom been known outside Bengal and never rendered through performing arts: even in Bengal. 

 

Shri Utpal K Banerjee has rendered them into rhymed English verses, which have now been published by the Sahitya Akademi in four volumes under the generic title: Rainbow Rhymes of Tagore. A selection out of these English verses will be visualised – in innovative classical forms by the following well-known choreographer-dancers

 

Purva Dhanasree in Vilasini Natyam; Kavita Dwivedi in Odissi; Pratibha Prahlad in Bharatanatyam; and Saswati Sen  in Kathak