Friday, June 3, 2011

Samindranath (contd-3)

Rabindranath remained busy for the last year due to the illness of Renuka and some unwanted activities in Santiniketan by this time.At the beginning of the year Satish Chandra Roy, Jagadananda Roy, Haricharan Bandyopadhyay, and Brajendralal Bandyopadhyay were regular teachers. Subodh Chandra Majumdar secured a job at Delhi post office by the initiative of his father-in-law. For this reason the school declared to remain closed for summer vacation so earlier. Rathindranath, Santosh Chandra, and Dinendranath remained in the hostel under the guardianship of Satish Chandra. The scientist and poet Surendranath Moitra came to Santiniketan during this time. Rathindranath had drawn a beautiful painting as a memento to his father. Problem for Kunjalal Ghosh continued upto this year and he was asked to resign. Headmaster of Rampurhat School, Nagendra Narayan Roy joined in his place. An insertion in the advertisement column had been given for inviting teachers willing to join. Some teachers were selected.
After Puja vacation  Bhupendranath Sanyal and Nagendranath Aich joined as teachers. and Subodh Chandra Majumdar and Narandranath Bhattacharya were reappointed. Within the winter vacation Satish Chandra Roy died out of small pox. For the rest of the days the school was shifted to Selaidah.
The number of students had increased this year. The letter written by Samindranath on 25th July said  that Bhola,Patal, Prafulla, Kshitish, Suhas and himself were the students of Infant Class..