"Stream of Life" is a
Bengali
Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to:
*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
poem from ''
Gitanjali
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''Gitanjali'' ( bn, গীতাঞ্জলি, lit='Song offering') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, for the English translation, Gitanjali:''Song Offer ...
'' written by
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
n Nobel Laureate
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
.
Named "Praan" and sung by
Palbasha Siddique
Palbasha Siddique ( bn, পলবাশা সিদ্দিক) (born January 3, 1991) is a Bangladeshi born American singer. She is best known for her performance of ''Praan'', a song adapted from the collection of poems ''Gitanjali'' by Rab ...
, it has been used as the background score for
Matt Harding
Matthew Harding (born September 27, 1976) is an American traveler, video game designer, and Internet celebrity who is known as Dancing Matt, for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various internatio ...
's "Dancing 2008" video. The song went on to be among the top ten of
Amazon's soundtrack downloads over a week and is also in the top 100 of all of its MP3 downloads.
The lyrics, which are in Bengali:
References
External links
Dancing 2008 videofeaturing ''Praan''
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Bengali-language literature
Bengali poetry
Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
Poems
Indian poems