Geetāshtak "Eight songs" page 1

'Geetāshtak' ('Eight songs') by Rabindranath Tagore, written in Nuremberg and Munich on 18-19 September 1926, during his trip to Germany. Most of these were originally written as poems, and were subsequently set to music. Among these there is a little gem – the original version of the poem 'Amar mukti ganer sure ei akashe' [‘My liberation is in the tunes of songs, within this sky’], written in Nuremberg on 19 September 1926, which Tagore later changed to 'Amar mukti aloy aloy ei akashe' [‘My liberation is among the light, within this sky’ – translation courtesy Amit Chaudhuri, 'Clearing a Space']. It may be noted that the piece on the left side of the same page – 'Nai nai bhoy, hobey hobey joy' [‘Fear not, victory will come’] – had no change in its lyrics subsequently.