Monday, March 18, 2013

Sarojini Naidu, Jawaharlal Nehru with his wife in Santiniketan-1934

 Rabindranath came back to Santiniketan on 3rd January,1934 after traveling west, south and central India for about one and half months.

Sarojini Naidu came to Santiniketan on 9th Jan 1934 and was greeted cordially.

Kamala Kaul Nehru  1 August 1899 - 28 February 1936) was a freedom fighter and the wife of Jawaharlal .
Nehru - leader of the Indian National Congress and the first prime minister of India and the mother of Indira Gandhi. She was known to be deeply sincere, highly patriotic, serious minded and sensitive A file picture of 1918 shows barrister Jawaharlal Nehru and wife Kamla Nehru with one - year - old daughter Indira, in Bombay(left)

Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Nehru came to Santiniketan to see their daughter reading in Santiniketan on 19th Jan  1934.
There was an earth quake in Bihar on 15th Jan 1934 which was mentioned by M.K.Gandhi  "as a result of sinful activity." This was protested  by Rabindranath in a letter written on 5th Feb.

Nalini ranjan Sarkar had close contacts with Surendranath Banerjee, Tej Bahadur Sapru, Motilal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and Chittaranjan Das, which developed his ideas related to nationalism and economic freedom. He joined the movement against the partition of Bengal in 1905. In later years, influenced by Gandhi's ideas of non-violence, he participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920.
In the early 1920s, when C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru founded the Swarajya Party, Nalini ranjan Sarkar joined it and soon became one of its leaders. He was, at the same time, involved with the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee. He was also a member of the Bengal Legislative Council from 1923 to 1930 and again from 1937 to 1946 as well as Chief Whip of the parliamentary Swarajya Party in Bengal. In the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress in 1928, he acted as the Secretary of the Exhibition organised for the occasion. Following the death of CR Das, he with Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, Nirmal Chandra Chunder, Sarat Chandra Bose and Tulsi Chandra Goswami dominated the Congress movement in Bengal and constituted what was known as the "Big Five" of the Bengal Congress. He was elected a Councillor of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation in 1932 and became its Mayor in 1935.He came to Santiniketan on 6th Feb 1934 as a chief guest and attended a lecture delivered by  Rabindranath on " Upekshita Palli"