Sunday, March 17, 2013

Rabindranath in 1933

Rabindranath being a professor of Ramtanu Lahiri delivered lectures in the Calcutta University in the series of  " lectures on Kamala" on the "Religion of Human being" on 16,18, and 20th January 1933.He was appointed in the same post for two years but he did not have taken regular classes.
  Mayor of Calcutta, Bidhan Chandra Roy, came to Sriniketan as a chief guest on the 11th anniversary of Sriniketan on 5-6 Jan 1933.
Drinking water was installed in Santiniketan by Minister of Bengal, Bijoy Prasad Singha. This was the first time that a minister of the Government of Bengal came to  Santiniketan.
Rabindranath delivered lecture in the Calcutta University as a professor on " Shikhshar Bikiran".
He came to the house of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis at Berhanagar for taking rest at the end of March 1933.
In the mean time Madan Mohan Malaviya came there and informed him about the scandals circulated by British Government relating to India through out the world.
Having returned to Santiniketan Rabindranath issued a statement in reply to the above, "Fully equipped information centers in the West is necessary to form for Sober presentation abroad of facts and figures about the present situation   "
Rabindranath began constructing Bengali terminology with the help of a young Professor Bijan Behari Bhattacharya.
He went to Darjeeling during summer vacation and came to Santiniketan after two months.
He organised afforestation ceremony and Barsha Mangal in Santiniketan.
The famous Dancer Uday Shankar came to Santiniketan and showed some dances to Rabindranath on 12 July,1933.  
William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833) was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becoming the independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire (1784–1812). In 1785, he underwent a conversion experience and became an evangelical Christian, which resulted in major changes to his lifestyle and a lifelong concern for reform. In 1787, he came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton. They persuaded Wilberforce to take on the cause of abolition, and he soon became one of the leading English abolitionists. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty-six years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.
Rabindranath sent a message to the death centenary of Wilberforce, the founder of the movement of slave-system.
On 12, 13, and !5th of Sept, 1933, the teachers and students staged in Madam Theater the recently finished two dance dramas, Taser Desh and Chandalika. Rabindranath delivered a lecture in Calcutta University on
" Rhymes " on 16th sept,1933.