Shilaidaha Kuthibadi a significant place connected with RABINDRANATH TAGORE and a tourist spot. It stands on top of the south bank of the canal Padma in Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia district and is five miles north of the area head office across the Gadai and conflicting to the Pabna urban on further than north crossways the Padma. Shilaidaha is also famed for the kachhari (office) of the Birahimpur zamindari and the significant kuthibadi of the Tagore relations of Jorasanko.
Shilaidaha is a comparatively current name; its old name was Khorshedpur. Proceeding to the Thakurs of Jorasanko acquired the village in the center of the 19th century there stood an indigo-Kuthi reportedly built by a planter, named Shelly. A deep daha (whirlpool) was shaped there at the confluence of the Gadai and the Padma, and hence the village came to be known as 'Shelly-daha', which ultimately took the form of 'Silaidaha'. DWARKANATH TAGORE, grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore, became the proprietor of this zamindari in 1807 by resources of a will executed in his favour by Ramlochan Tagore. Rabindranath unspecified the accountability of looking following the zamindari and came to Shilaidaha for the primary instance in November 1889.
Rabindranath Tagore in his teenage years and even later infrequently stayed there during his periodic examination of the zamindari estate. But later the Padma began to eat covetously its banks during high flood close to the old Kuthibadi. Anxious at the devastating wearing away it was dismantled and its building equipment was used for the school congregation of the new Kuthibadi. There the poet lived for more than a decade at irregular intervals flanked by 1891 and 1901. During his stay there, well-known scientists, litterateurs and intelligentsia of Bengal such as Sir JAGADISH CHANDRA BOSE, DWIJENDRALAL ROY, PRAMATHA CHOWDHURY, MOHITLAL MAJUMDER, Lokendranath Palit visited him on a variety of occasions. Meeting at his small table in the Kuthibadi or on a boat on the Padma, Rabindranath wrote a numeral of masterpiece: Sonar Tari, Chitra, Chaitali, Katha O Kahini, Ksanika, most of the poetry of Naibedya and Kheya, and the songs of GITANJALI and Gitimalya. It was here, in 1912, that the writer ongoing his transformation of Gitanjali into English, which earned him the Nobel Prize in 1913. Rabindranath had a deep accessory for Shilaidaha and the Padma, which is obvious in his Chhinna Patrabali. The poet once wrote in a letter, 'The holy place of my literary pursuits throughout my youth and central point age was the rural group of people of Shilaidaha kissed by the impression of the Padma'.
Kuthibadi is a charming three-storied terraced small house, construct with brick, timber, grooved tin sheet and Raniganj tiles. Silaidaha Kuthibadi is nestled within about eleven acres of fine-looking orchards of mango, jackfruit and other evergreen trees, a blossom backyard and two ponds. Silaidaha has a captivating commonplace beauty and rural background. The Villa, with this within a border line wall, is entered from side to side a simple but good-looking gateway on the south. It accommodates about 15 apartments of various sizes with a large middle hall on the earth and the first floors. Each of the open terraces on the ground and the first floors is partly with this with a sloping roof of Raniganj tiles, while the innermost part in excess of the ground floor has a pitched roof with gable ends. A short pyramidal crest further than variegates the roof over the subsequent storey. Silaidaha Kuthibadi is now a secluded countrywide memorial where a Thakur Memorial Museum has been well-known by the government.
Rabindranath in progress his investigational work with village expansion and modern methods of crop growing at Shilaidaha, which he later undertook at PATISAR. He well-known a primary school there in the name of Pratima Devi, his daughter-in-law.
The birth and death anniversaries of the poet are experimental at Silaidaha on a national level on 25 Baishakh and 22 Shraban in that order. Many scholars from home and abroad attend this high spirits and take part in negotiations on the life and works of Rabindranath. Cultural functions follow, during which well-known artistes at hand TAGORE SONGS
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