Sunday, October 3, 2010

Literary activity of Rabindranath


Prasanta Kumar Pal wrote in his book that Rabindranath attended a meeting of literary persons where Pramatha Choudhury, Hirendranath Datta, Jnanandranath Gupta, Anath Nath Basu were present. The function of this 'Sahitya Samity' was to assist  the journal, 'Sahitya' edited by Suresh Chandra Samajpati. The name of the organisation was 'Suhrid Samity'.
Then he went to Bolpur and stayed there in the two storied building, named 'Shantiniketan', constructed two years earlier in the open space as a 'prayer house' (19th oct 1888) by his father. Before this occasion Maharshi made his Trust Deed for Shantiniketan.  It was at that time barren land and there was no construction other than this building. There Rabindranath did some literary work. He wrote some poems for his 'Manasi' Kabyagrantha.
But soon he had to go to his Zamindari Estate where he could not concentrate his mind. He planned for a ground work of another drama. He again went to Solapur to his 2nd elder brother's house and came to know that his brother and one of his friend, Loken Palit, was going to England. He settled to go along with them. He gave us a beautiful essay 'Europe Jatrir Diary' where he described the difference between the cultures of East and West which had been a matter discussion even today. After coming back he published ', 'Manasi', a Kabya Grantha by collecting the poems he wrote a few days back. In Manasi there was a poem named 'Upahar'which was difficult to comment to whom he wanted to refer, might be his wife Mrinalini..