Saturday, June 25, 2011

Santiniketan (contd-20)

Bhupendranath Sanyal joined the school as a teacher after the Puja vacation. Satyaranjan Basu wrote ,
' Narendranath Bhattacharya and Nagendranath Aich joined as professors in Selaidah (the school was temporarily shifted there). Naren Babu was a poet and an artist. He was a teacher of  Bengali. Nagen Babu was teacher of drawing.'
Narendranath was an old teacher. This was his second time of joining here. But could not continue for long time. 
Nagendranath Aich (1878- 1956) was a man of Khulna District, recently traind in Vernacular. He worked in a school for a long time.
Bhupendranath was a religious man. He was a real teacher in Brahmacharyasram and to implement the ideals of Rabindranath. His sacrifice was wellknown. He looked after the children as his son which was narrated by his beloved student in  their autobiography. Rabindranath tried a new experiment with his help.When Rabindranath established the school , he preached them the spiritualism. Now he wanted to preach them the ancient ideals of India. They choose three of them , 1. Santosh Chandra, 2. Rathindranath,3. Sarojchandra (Bhola). Rabindranath, Mohit Chandra and Bhupendranath initiated them.
Bhupendranath wrote that they paid special attention to the three  boys about their work and advised them about Brahmacharya. It was decided that these boys would lead an ideal life and will be in charge of the other boys to see that all would obey the same principle of Brahmacharya of thee ancient India.
Rabindranath wrote to Manoranjan Bandyopadhyay, 
'Having shifted the school to this place I'm very busy. I shall go to Bolpur on 15 Jaistha. On 15 Baishakh, the school will remain closed. during vacation I will stay here for the month.'
But the plan was totally upset on receiving a telegram of his father's illness. He came to Calcutta immediately.
It might be that Mohit Chandra had a plan to shift tghe school to Calcutta and with the help of some rich persons they would make the school bigger. Rabindranath wrote him on Wednesday, 
I was very happy this time in svhool. all the teachers worked sincerely.