Monday, June 27, 2011

Santiniketan ( Contd-21)

On hearing about the illness of his father Rabindranath went to Calcutta on 8th March, but came back again to Selaidah on 15th March and stayed there upto the end of this month. He was not physically well. He went to Hazaribagh last year and got fever, that fever lasted for long time.On 22nd April, he wrote to Dinesh Chandra Sen,
' I'm not well'. After few days he wrote to Brajendra kishore Devbarma,
I've to go to Calcutta but was not well there, Here I'm little better.
Again after few days wrote to Manoranjan Bandyopadhyay,
I'm not well. Everyday I'm having fever and feel weakness. I shall go again to Calcutta to consult with the Doctor..
He came to Calcutta and consulted with Dr. Harris who advised him to go for a change after examination.On 23rd April, he went to Mazzafarpur, residence of his son in law, with his children.
In the meantime, the school at Selaidah was not running smoothly.Bhupendranath Sanyal noted that they had shifted the school from Santiniketan to Selaidah in apprehension of some epidemic diseases but after a few month the students were attacked with Small Pox here. They beacame awfully busy with some students and they had to close down the school for summer vacation to send the boys to their residence.All the students and the teachers went to their respective houses. But they were very much distressed with one boy attacked with small pox and with loose motion.This boy was Saminath Shastri,  the son of Priya Nath Shastri, who was a relative of Surendranath. Surendranath Babu  came to the Court for some of his peronal business and came to Selaidah.he also joined for his nursing.in the mean time Santosh got a wound when playing foot ball. All of them became busy with him. But suspecting that the case meght be serious Surendranath along with Rathi took him to Calcutta. Bhupendranath and 2/1 teacher went to Calcutta with the deceased student..