Way to Brookside, House of Rabindranath Tagore

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Tagore visited Shillong on three occasions. He stayed at Brookside in Rilbong in 1919 in an Assam-type building which was subsequently taken over by the Meghalaya art and culture department. The building at Brookside christened Rabindranath Tagore Art Gallery is still preserved by the department. The Brookside bungalow, where Rabindranath Tagore stayed during his visit to Shillong in October 1919, has been renamed as the Rabindranath Art Gallery by the Meghalaya Government. Now the bungalow is a centre for promotion of art and literature. Tagore during his stay at Shillong penned the classic Shesher Kabita (farewell song) . Shesher Kabita is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, widely considered a landmark in Bengali literature.

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Location: Brookside, House of Rabindranath Tagore, Shillong, Meghalaya
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