Friday, September 14, 2012

Rabindranath Tagore in China-Peking-1924

On 19th April, in the morning at 8AM, Rabindranath left Sanghai and started for Peking through Yangshee river. On the way Rabindranath discussed with his associates about the future politics of Asia. Kalidas Nag wrote this valuable discussion in his diary;
" It is known by many that the strength of China is its population as in India. Russia may have begun to speculate on the basis of this. So we have to move carefully. Though the condition of India as well as Asia is same. Two gigantic power has grown up - one, old world exploitation and newly developed Bolsevik terrorism. Secondly, violence would be done in two ways......."
It was not very easy to know the social condition of Soviet Russia by crossing the net work of obstruction of Imperialism. It was unbelievable that the information gathered by Rabindranathin International politics and the reactions of this politics on other countries..
On 20th April they reached Nanking by steamer and got in the River Bridge Hotel...