At the beginning of the year, on 19 January, Rabindranath read out an essay on Rammohan Roy at City College Hall on Mirzapur Street. In his lecture he described the utility of discussing the life of a great man like Rammohan Roy. Most people remember Raja Ram Mohan Roy as the man who fought to abolish Sati (the practice of a wife immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre) and also founded the Brahmo Samaj. But his contribution was a great deal more than that. Born in Radhanagar, a village in Hooghly District, on 22 May 1772 in a conservative Bengali Brahmin family, he had his elementary education in a village school and studied from the age 12 in a Muslim seminary in Patna where he mastered Persian and Arabic. His knowledge of Arabic enabled him to read the Koran in the original, as well as the works of Sufi saints. He also devoured Arabic translations of the works of Aristotle and Plato.When he was 16, Roy clashed with his orthodox father on the issue of idol worship and laft home. For the next three years he travelled through north India and Tibet to learn about Buddhism. He then visited Varanasi where he learnt Sanskrit and and studied ancient Hindu scriptures. In 1803, he secured a job with with the East India Company and in 1809 he was posted to Rangpur . There he learnt about Jainism and studied the Jain texts. He was drawn to certain aspects of Christianity. The knowledge of different religion helped him to compare these with Vedantic philosophy. He resigned from East India Company and came to Calcutta in 1815. Along with a group of like-minded people, he founded the Atmiya Sabha in 1815. He proved that the practice of Sati did not confer "moksha" (salvation) for the husband as each man was responsible for his own destiny. His relentless effort in the form petitions and writings ultimately led William Bentick to pass an order of banning the practice of Sati. He alsdo published a newspaper in Persian called Miratul-Akbar and a Begali weekly "Sambad Kumudi". Founding of Brahmo Samaj was one of the most important contribution of Ram Mohan Roy. He was close friend of Dwarakanath Tagore and the Tagore family. 
After being the Secretary of Adi Brahmo Samaj, Rabindranath wrote 32 Brahmo Sangeet in four months before the ceremony of Magh Utsab. At his initiative a Reading Room was opened at the Brahmo Samaj Building at Chitpore Road. Rabindranath made many friends in the Brahmo Samaj: other than Akshoy Choudhury, Jyotirindranath, Probodh Chandra Ghosh he was associated with Priya Nath Sen, Shrish Chandra Majumdar, Kaliprasanna Kabya Bisharad, Ashutosh Choudhury, Jogendranarayan Mitra etc.Jogendranarayan Mitra printed a collection of songs of Rabindranath (1292)-Rabichchaya- the title of which was given by him .He published jointly a book Padaratnabali with Shrish Chandra; Ashutosh Choudhury arranged the poems of Kadi O Komal for printing. Once rabindranath thought that he would print the padabali of Bidyapati, but on hearing that the project was going to be done by Kaliprasanna, he submitted his collected materials to Kaliprasanna Kabyabisharad. Ashutosh choudhury was a brilliant student. He was scholar both of Calcutta and Cambridge University and had a taste for literature. He married Prativa Devi, daughter of Hemendranath. Rabindranath used to consult him about foreign literature. Priya Nath Sen with knowledge of foreign literature, was at that time very close to Rabindranath, who wrote about this time in his life, "Jiban achilo laghu pratham bayase"
