The Department of Bengali, The Bhawanipur Education Society College organized “Ponchishey Boishakh: Amader Songe Rabindranath” to celebrate the 160th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore on Saturday, May 8, 2021. The program, held online via Google Meet, went on for more than three hours with active support from the professors of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. The inaugural speech was delivered by Professor Debjani Ganguly, Vice Principal (Arts), following which a speech by Professor Tathagata Sen, IQAC Coordinator, BESC set the tone for the evening. Professors and students from various departments and sections presented both recorded and live recitation, dance, and song performances. The guests of the evening – Mr. Kallol Ghoshal, Mrs. Sumitra Shome and Mrs. Subarna Mitra – also performed songs of Tagore. Portions from Tagore’s novel “Shesher Kobita” was played as an audio drama by the students and professors of the departments of English, Bengali, and History while selections from Tagore’s play “Tasher Desh” was performed by the students of the Department of English. The event ended with the vote of thanks delivered by Dr. Soumya Bhattacharjee, Department of Bengali.