Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Rabindranath now at 34

(L to R) Mira, Rathindra. Rabindranath, wife of Rathindranath, Bela.
 Last year, Mira, youngest daughter of Rabindranath was born.
The last issue (as a joint issue of Ashwin and Kartik) of the magazine Sadhana was published. After publishing the magazine Rabindranath heaved a sigh of relief as he was overburdened with responsibilities of his Zamindari and other activities.He was writing poems for 'Chitra'. He wrote several marvellous poetry for Chitra, namely, Purnima,Urbashi, Bijayini, Swarga Hote Biday. Chitra was published this year.
During summer, Rabindranath went to Patisar and stayed on a boat. It was too hot and  the windows had to be kept closed but the outside was visible through the window-slits.
Rabindraqnath was a poet of nature, human being was secondary to him. But while he was writing 'Chaitali', he explored the relationship between man and nature. He celebrated the victory of the human spirit in Chaitali. In his Short Stories (Galpaguchcha) he said the same.
In the meantime he was called for the partition of the Tagore estate. Unitl then, the properties of his dead brother, Girindranath, and his dead son, Hemendranath, had been managed along with the property of Debendranath. When his youngest son and two of his grand-sons entered a new business, Debendranath was unwilling to spread the risk to the estates of Girindranath and Gaganendranath.
After the partition, Shahjadpur Pargana of Pabna Diistrict went to Girindranath and the Zamindari in Cuttak to Gaganendranath. The process of partition was not entirely smooth and Rabndranath was greatly disturbed.
Hr wrote Malini Kabya Grantha while he was in Orissa.
His nephew Satyaprasad published his two books, Malini and Chaitali.