About Gitabitan Archive

Gitabitan Archive is an Archival Research cum Entertainment software covering the entire GITABITAN by Rabindra Nath Tagore. Tagore wrote 2212 songs in his lifetime which have been alphabetically arranged in Gitabitan.
Gitabitan Archive is a DVD-based software which can be played easily by a computer.
Clicking the “Icon” a colourful window will open where 2212 songs of Gitabitan have been arranged alphabetically. On clicking any of these songs we shall get a list of artists who have sung the particular song. After clicking the name of any artist from the list the song will start playing and picture of the artist will be displayed.
In the foot-note all information about the song like Category, Sub-category, Serial number, Date of composition, Age, Volume of Swarabitan, Name of the scorer, Detail of Sura/Tal & Raga will be displayed.
We shall have access to the Lyric, Notation, First recording and all other necessary information of the song by clicking the respective buttons.
On typing the first few alphabets (Phonetic) we can get any song of our choice top on the list.
From the “Search Option” we can search a song in multiple ways.
A total number of 2891 Rabindra Sangeet, 4 ‘Nrityanatyas’ & 3 ‘Geetinatyas’ including the texts, 86 songs of Gitanjali and 433 Brahma Sangeet have been compiled in a single DVD.
242 ‘Bhanga Gan’ have been listed in this Archive, where the source song can be compared with the respective Rabindra Sangeet.

We can also hear 9 songs & 17 recitations in Tagore’s own voice.
Alphabetically arranged texts of 2212 songs.
Total number of individual songs played 1735.
Total Collection of songs in the DVD is 2891.
4 ‘Nrityanatyas’ & 3 ‘Geetinatyas’.
86 songs of Gitanjali & 433 Brahma Sangeet.
242 Bhanga Gan with the source songs.
Total number of artists represented 162.
9 songs & 17 recitations in Tagore’s own voice
Other Information
· Preface by Sankha Ghosh.
· History of ‘Gitabitan’.
· Graphical presentation of number & category of songs with age.
· Tagore’s portrait of different age & mood.
· Number & categorization of Tagore’s song with his age.
· Photograph & history of Tagore’s houses. Tagore’s family-tree.
· List & information about ‘first recording’ of Rabindra Sangeet.
· Picture gallery of Tagore’s manuscripts, self-portraits, etc.
· History and information on ‘Postage- stamps’ of Tagore.
· Complete index of ‘Swarabitan’ (64 volume). List of ‘Repeated’ songs.
· Tukro-Katha : Pictorial collage on Tagore’s life & songs.
· Tahader-Katha . Bibliography. Miscellaneous
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