"The Ashram is situated on a vast open country, bare up to the line of the horizon except for sparesely growing stunted date palms and prickly shrubs strugging with anti-hills. Below the level of the field, there extend numberless mounds and tiny hillocks of red gravel and pebbles of all shapes and colours, intersected by narrow channels of rain water.Not far away towards the south near the village can be seen through the intervals of a row palm trees the gleeming surface of steel-blue water, collected in a hollow of the ground. A road used by the village people for their marketing in the town goes meandering through the lonely fields, with its red dust staring in the sun. Travellers coming up this road can see from a distance on the summit of the undulating ground the spire of a temple and the top of a building,, indicating the Shantiniketan ashram, among its amlaki groves and its avenue of stately sal trees.
Rabindranath wanted to run his school in the model of the ancient hermitages with no luxuries, the rich and the poor being alike, will live like ascetics. But he did not find any right teachers."
He had to sell all the copyrights of his books, and everything he had in order to carry on with the school.
As per the instruction of Brahma Bandhab Upadhyay Brahmacharjashram was formed. Rabindranath delivered his first lecture in the New Year in the sacred place. But Brahmabandhab and Rebachand discontinued from the Ashram and Monaranjan Bandyopadhyay was appointed as Headmaster. Tuition fees were cllected from the month of July 1902. Until then there had been no tuition fee.
A Japanese student came to learn Sanskrit.
