Santiniketan (Contd-11)

In the year 1903, among the teachers there were Rebachand, Manoranjan Bandyopadhyay, Jagadananda Roy, Subodh Chandra Majumdar and Shibdhan Bidyarnab. It was not known when Sashi Bhushan Roychoudhury resigned. There was some trouble with Christian Teacher Rebachand for which he did not join after the summer vacation. Rabindranath wrote Manoranjan Bandyopadhyay that Rebachand would not join again. Today in the night Subodh was going to Bolpur. A Kinder Garten trained teacher Abinash Basu would join from 1st aug. 2003. Rathindranath and Madhurilata took their lessons for some time from Abinash Basu and his wife at Jorasanko. it was not known how long he continued in his service.
The poet Narendranath Bhattacharya joined this year as a Bengali teacher. He was a day teacher as that of Subodh Chandra. Manoranjan Bandyopadhyay wrote to Rabindranath that Narendranth left the school tomorrow after receiving a telegram. Probably he had got another service.Pandit Shibdhan Bidyarnab left the school within a few day because his service was not satisfactory. Haricharan Bandyopadhyay joined in his post.
Kunjalal Ghosh, son in law of Sibnath Shastri, was appointed as a teacher and Secretary of the school at the end of the month Kartik. Rabindrnath gave him in writing the rules and regulations of the school and was dependant on him. But the teachers of the ashram specially Manoranjan Bandyopadhyay did not like him.
After  few days there cropt up a trouble due to bowing down of Brahmin student to a non-brahmin teacher. The matter was settled  by Rabindranath by dis-allowing him from taking classes. But still Manoranjan Babu did not like him because Rabindranath alloted him to stay with his family in the proposed laboratory room on the east side of the old building in place of Manoranjan Babu. Moreover, Satyendranath Bhattacharya, son in law of Rabindranath, was appointed as a Prncipal of the ashram. he left the school showing an excuse   of  his health.