New Delhi, May 13 -- In spite of being one of the hottest months of the year, May often brings many reasons to celebrate, with music, lyrics and stories paying homage to several literary and cultural greats through their birth anniversaries. Come May 9 (at times May 8, depending on the Indian traditional calendar), which corresponds to the 25th of Baisakh, various festivities and functions observe the birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. These occasions coincide closely with festivities that begin a few days earlier as May itself is ushered in with celebrations of the birth anniversary of raconteur-filmmaker Satyajit Ray on May 2. As retrospectives, seminars, functions and musical evenings organised to commemorate the ...