Thursday, May 5, 2011

Satish Chandra and Santiniketan (contd-25)

The School at Santiniketan was declared closed due to excessive heat of the Summer. Keeping Rathindra and someother students of the school after the vacation under the charge of Satish Chandra Rabindranath decided to go to Almorah with Renuka who was suffering from Tuberculosis. He wrote to Srish Chandra that after passing the Entrance examination Rathi would be sent to Japan for training in Mining or would be sent to some other places for training in the subject with practical classes.My intention was to make him trained in some techinical subject which he would teach the students of Santiniketan. Santosh also coul;d be sent for similar purpose. Expenses for this training was not much, only rs. 60/- per month. There was facilities for  being trained in any subject. He again wrote that he was thinking about the accomodation Rathi should be provided to make him sit for F.A, examination.He was asking Subodh to bring the information about the feasibility of sitting for the examination, privately, from Bolpur.But he could not get information till now. If it was possible to sit for the examination from Bolpur, then it would be better. Moreover, antosh and Rathi would read together. After three years both of them were sent to America for being trained in Agriculture. Before that they were trained in Santiniketan with special attention.
Rabindranath informed  Manoranjan Bandyopadhyay  his latest decision. He was happy to see that arrangements could have been done For Raathi to study from Santiniketan. He gave up the temptation of getting Rathi graduate because he had other plan for Rathi.
Rabindranath wrote an essay at the middle of the month of Phalgun titlted "BasantaYapan" describing the relation  of nature with human being. Depicting the unity of man and nature and their unity. This is the greatness of man to establish a close relation with nature. man is an all round being. Satish Chandra Roy read the essay before its publication and became overwhelmed with joy which was not undisclosed in the his letter written to Ajit Kumar Chakraborty. He said that Rabibabu wrote a beautiful prose. Now the Bengali literature had opened a new avenue because Rabi took his pen to write prose in Bwengali.