Paragraph for JSC/SSC/HSC examination Hason Raja Dewan Hasan Raja Chowdhury was a Bengali poet, mystic philosopher and folk-song writer and composer from Sylhet. He gained international recognition few years after his death, when Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore mentioned him in his lectures at Oxford University. Tagore said; “ We realise it through admiration and love, through hope that soars beyond the actual, beyond our own span of life into an endless time wherein we live of all men.” and “It is a village poet of East Bengal who preaches in a song the philosophical doctrine that the universe has its reality in its relation to the Person. ” Hasan’s songs are collected in a number of books – Hachhan Udas, Shaukhin Bahar, Hachhan Bahar, etc. Hason died on 7 December 1922. Two museums were established in his name in two places. One namely, Hason Raja Museum sponsored by “Hason Raja Museum Trust at his birthpalce Lokkonshri, Sunamganj and another namely, Museum of Rajas’ at Ra...