Sunday, July 10, 2011

Santiniketan (contd-36)

It was expected that Kshiti Mohan Sen would join Santiniketan after the Summer Vacation. On 24 April , Rabindranath wrote him ,
'I  have come to learn from the letter of Sashtri  Babu the details of your journey. But that will not be any problem because the school will remain closed for summer vacation up to 15th June. To give a definite shape to the school and  to make total system inspiring from within are not possible for a single person. I don't want that. The school should be developed with the sincere and independent action of all the tachers.'
Kshiti Mohan called on Rabindranath after coming to Calcutta. He wrote,
I met Rabindranath along with my friend Charu Bandyopadhaya and learnt from him that the school is now closed for untimely attack of small pox.'You too can enjoy holidays and join in the month of Asharh.
Kshiti Mohan joined in June, . He wrote on joining I saw that the school is in a state of mourning for the sudden death of Satish Chandra Roy. At that time Ajit Kumar Chakraborty,a friend of Satish Chandra, my friend Bidhu Shekhar Sashtri, Scientist and writer Jagadananda Roy, and the famous philologist Haricharan Bandypadhyay were working as profesors. Dinendranath popularly known as "the store keeper of songs of Rabindranath" was also working. Ajit Babu and Dinendranath became friendly with me from the very beginning.