"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 __NOTOC__ ''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

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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

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'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:

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Dancing 2008 video
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