Friday, June 3, 2011

Samindranath (contd-2)

At the middle of 2003 (Aug-Sep), Rabindranath was thinking to seperate the Brahmacharyashram from the Ashram of Santiniketan because some drawbacks were visible in the application of teaching system . Samindranath wrote on 25th July (Saturday) ' we were still practicing handwriting as before.In our class there were Bhola, Patal, myself, Prafulla, Kshitish, and Suhas as students.There was no class for English, no class for Arithmatic, no class for Geography or History, no class for Bengali even.'
Rabindranath gave due importance to the letter of his youngest son and wrote Mohit Chandra that the lesson in the Infant Class was almost closed. Sami wrote that they were not learning Bengali, History, Geography, Arithmatic which meant  that they were not learning anything.When Kunja Babu was in the school he used to take all these classes.  Rabindranath asked Mohit Chandra  to go to Bolpur now. It was not possible for him to do anything by writing letters only.
Rathindranath and Samindranath came to Calcutta to see their ailing  sister Renuka for the last time. After 9 days (14th Sept.) Renuka expired. The news was circulated to Bolpur and Phooltala, mother-in-laws house through telegraph. Rathindranath and Samindranath went to Bolpur well in ahead.
During winter vacation of the school at Santiniketan Rabindranath took Mira, Sami, Rathi, Santosh Chandra, and the teacher of the school Subodh Chandra Majumdar to Selaidah.