Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Samindranath (contd-8`)

The school was declared closed during rainy season last year. But in this year due to drought water in the well had been dried up. Moreover, it was poluted for which the school declared closed in the 2nd week of Baishakh. Rabindranath wrote to Mira Devi,
The school was contaminated with the germs of Small Pox and hence the school would remain closed for 1and 1/2 months from tomorrow. During this vacation new room was to be constructed.
After the vacation the school became almost vacant.Rabindranath wrote to Mira on 24 April,2007, All the boys left from the hostel, only Kshitish, Sami, and Patal (son of Jagadananda Roy)  remained. If the marriage of the sister of patal took place this time, Patal also would go. Bolpur did not see such a vacant days. Even Jatin Palit and Debal also had gone. There were some news also about Sami in this letter. Sami  got fever for arranging books in the library.Within his fever he was practicing song and doing discussion on Kabya. It was found that his attraction in songs had increased too much. Almost everyday he was singing the song, "Eki labanye purna pran" and moving around. It could not be said that the tune was perfect . The love for music was also expressed by his class mate Sudhiranjan, " Sami was looking exactly similar to that of Gurudev, same complexion, same  face cutting and same looking style. He could sing briliantly."
Another classmate Sudhakanta Roychoudhury in his memoirs about Sami expressed that he could remember clearly  when he was asked by the new music teacher respected Sri Ajit Kumar Chakraborty. He started singing after a brief pause on seeing some unknown face the song 'Purna Pranesh', and after a few minutes sung another song "Bahe nirantara anantadhara". It was so sweet that  was never heard before. He added that he was living in Lucknau through out his life for which he could not listen such melodious song.