Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Rabindranath in America- 2nd times - Riverside & Los Angeles (contd-15)

Rabindranath went to visit Orange Groves of Riverside by motor.It was settled that he would stay Glenwood Mission Inn up to lunch but he was so pleased to see the beauties of the place  as if he became intoxicated, he cancelled some of his schedule and stay there for long time.  and the "atmosphere " of the Inn, too, pleased him , and when the usual musical service was held last night he felt into its spirit and both astounded and delighted the other guests by reading a poem from his book,
 "Gitanjali" , he said "Next to India, Southern California is the one place in the world where I'd like to live . I can think of nothing better than to sit among the orange groves and dream away my life."
Rabindranath read his essay on "The Cult of nationalism" in Trinity Auditorium of Los Angeles  on 9th Oct organised by Cumnock School of Expression. The local paper, Times , wrote; "Trinity Auditorium was packed to capacity to last night and Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal poet, educator and interpreter of the occulation of the east, was accorded a royal welcome."
The news paper "Examiner' published an interview with Rabindranath in the hotel on the subject " Marriage and Divorce" on 10th Oct. he said ;
" I consider marriage not merely a convenient or a mutual agreement, but something deep in human nature -- the expression of the very necessity of humanity." In his opinion, " the defects of the present system of marriage needs correction in the progress of time." His opinion about the divorce is, " the relations between Mother and child, brother and sister, though, are having blood relation still they possess freedom -- so it is difficult to give an opinion offhand as to the drawing of the line where divorce should come. All I can say is that divorce should become more and more elastic as society progresses."