sed eight-song album Romancing Tagore of some of Tagore’s best work, translated in Urdu. Sheraz is a popular singer in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India and is best known for the Hindi number Bheege honth tere from Murder.
Tagore’s work has always been understood as a sacred space that most non-Bengalis fear to tread. Sheraz, who has been working on this for a year, took it on as a formidable challenge. The album is part of a compilation of over 100 of Tagore’s poems in Urdu, launched in March this year. Tagore has been translated into Urdu before, notably Urdu poet Firaq Gorakhpuri who picked up poems from Gitanjali. Niaz Fatehpuri also translated fragments from Gitanjali. 
Apne qadmon tale
Mujh ko bijh jaane do
Ik mukammal khushi ke liye
Apne paon ki dhool se
Surkh ho jaane do
Meri poshak ko.
(Allow me to spread myself/For happiness in full/With the dust of your feet/Let my being glow in it/Under your footsteps)
In the original song, Oi Ason Tawley/ Matir parey/ Lutiye rabo/ Tomar charan dhulay dhulay dhoosar habo, was sung to a folk tune.
Rakshananda Jalil, who wrote a review of the album in the Lahore weekly The Friday Times, wrote to me about the power of these lyrics. “Listening to these translated poems helps you enjoy the sheer joy of poetry. The translations are as pleasing as the poetry. The music composer has set it to a tune similar to Rabindrasangeet and it hasn’t been sung like a conventional Urdu ghazal.”
Like poets Iqbal and Faiz, Tagore belonged to all three countries. Jalil adds that a Tagore song in Urdu or a Faiz lyric in Bengali strengthens the forces of camaraderie between people of these countries.
A well-versed and true-blue connoisseur of Rabindrasangeet will remember the rendition of the original by Debabrata Biswas — Tumi Rabe Neerabe Hridaye Mawmo (You will remain in silence in my heart). 
(Translation of poems into English by Gautam Dutt, New Delhi)