To meet the expenses of the court case of Tilak, Rabindranath, along with Hirendranath Datta and Subodh Chandra Mallik, collected money and sent it to Pune. Plague, an epidemic disease, was spreading in Calcutta. In the same year Government placed the Sedition Bill in the Parliament and passed it. Govt. also passed the Vernacular Press Act to suppress the right to speak A committee of the local papers, therefore, met secretly and then organised a formal meeting at the Town Hall, where Rabindranath, in his lecture against the suppression of the right to speak ( Kantharodh), asked that as many as possible newspapers should be published until the expression of public view became free; the mother land could not remain underground.
Rabindranath became Editor of Bharati.
The ritual of the sacred thread of Rathindranath was performed in Shantiniketan.
In the provincial Conference of Congress held at Dacca, Rabindranath read an essay in Bengali.
From 1884 to 1896, Rabindranath wrote several Kabya-Natya. This was a new invention of Rabindranath. He wrote- 'Prakritir Pratishodh' in 1884, Chitrangada in !891, 'Biday Abhishap' in 1894, and 'Malini' in 1896. Then he wrote- 'Gandharir Abedan', 'Sati', 'Narakbas', 'Lakshir Pariksha' etc.
