Kolkata, May 9: West Bengal on Wednesday paid tribute to Asia’s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore on the bard’s 157th birth anniversary, with his songs, poems and plays reverberating across the state. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee extended her wishes via Twitter. “Today is the birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. My tribute to the great poet and writer on Pochishe Boishakh (the 25th day of the first month of the Bengali calendar Baisakh when the poet was born),” she said. It has been an age-old custom to celebrate Tagore’s birthday as per the Bengali calendar.