Lal Paharir Deshe Ja (transl. You belong to the land of red hills) is a Bengali folk music based on a poem written by Arun Chakraborty in 1970s.[1]
Arun Chakraborty, a folk artist (and engineer by training),[2] wrote the poem after spotting a leafless Palash tree at Srirampur Station, he considered the tree to be misfit and thought that it should belong to the red hills.[3] He went home and wrote down his thoughts. He used a tribal dialect while penning the poem.
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- ↑ "The Biography of a Song". openthemagazine.com. 16 July 2012. Archived from the original on 20 December 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
- ↑ "Poet Arun Kumar Chakraborty - Interview and Recitation of Bengali Poems". washingtonbanglaradio.com. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
- ↑ "Lal paharir deshe ja completes 40 years". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 27 November 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2014.