Friday, October 29, 2010

Rabindranath was a good promoter of folk songs

In September, 1994, Rabindranath went to Ranaghat as a guest of Nabinchandra Sen and wrote a story, titled "Megh O Roudra". In Chaitanya Library, he read an essay "Chele Bhulano Chara". He was a good promoter of folk songs of Bengal.
He went to Bolpur stayed there for sometime and wrote a poetry "Antarjami". On the fourth year Rabindranath took the responsibility of editing the magazine, "Sadhana". from Sudhindranath.
As usual Rabindranath took the responsibility seriously. He began to write short stories, essays, on current issues etc. He wrote a number of critical essays on literature.  The  were Criticisms of Books was started by Bankimchandra in "Bangadarshan". Book reviews??  Rabindranath started his career writing essays criticising Books in the magazine, 'Gnanankur'. This time the standard of criticism should be at par with the standard of western literature.
Within these four years, as part of his busy routine, Rabindranath wrote so many articles, essays, poems, Short Stories etc that the collection could take the form of a book. The short stories, Panchabhuter Diary written by him in this period becale classics.
He wrote 3 volumes of books containing 87 short stories, of this 36 short stories were published in Sadhana.
But the task of fulfilling the duty of editor of Sadhana  was gradually becoming difficult.