Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Rabindranath in convocation of Calcutta University -1937

Rabindranath constructed a poem on the foundation day of Calcutta University. He also wrote a poem on "Africa" . Rabindranath was invited to deliver a lecture in the convocation of Calcutta University. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was the then Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University. This was the first time that a non-official person was invited in the convocation of Calcutta University. Rabindrannath himself, too, delivered his speech in Bengali on 17th february, 1937 which was also an exception .
Rabindranath went to Chandannagar by boat and delivered  a lecture in the " Banga Sahitya Sammelan" .
Democracy of Spain was devasted by Italy.
" Fascism Breeds War."
The rapid rise of Fascism is closely related to the increasing war danger. Fascism means forced labor,
militarization, lower standards of living, and the accentuation of national hatred and chauvinist incitements as instruments for the “moral” preparation for war. It sets the people of one country against the people
of another, and exploits the internal racial and national groups within each country in order to prevent them
from uniting in joint action to solve their common problems.
The war danger arises inevitably out of the very nature of monopolistic capitalism — the ownership
of the means of production by a small capitalist class and the complete domination of government by this
class. The imminent war danger is only another expression of the fundamental crisis of the capitalist system, which continues its existence only at the cost of intensiļ¬cation of exploitation and oppression of the masses at home and in the colonies, and of struggle among the imperialist powers for a revision of markets and sources of raw materials.
Only in the Soviet Union has this basic cause of war been removed. " Rabindranath became the president of "League against War and fascism". he delivered a lecture on the Centenary of Ramakrishna.