Sunday, August 21, 2011

Gitanjali and Santiniketan (contd-4)

Jaishta 1317, very few publications were out of Rabindranath in different magazines excepting one. A picture drawn by Nandalal Basu, titled 'Diksha' was published in Bharati. Rabindranath wrote a song explaining the meaning of the picture. The song was;
'Nibhrita praner debata jekhane jagen eka';  
After the end of the preliminary steps of the marriage of Ajit Kumar and Labanya in the month of Baishakh, Rabindranath wrote a song on 17 May,
'Tora shunis ni ki shunis ni tar payer dhwani', Gitanjali 11/51Swara-38.Raag-Sindh-Jhnap Taal. 
Ajit Kumar joined Santiniketan just after passing B.A.(Pass) without honours. His relatives were not satisfied with his work of joining with small salary. Moreover, he had the responsibility of maintining his mother and his two brothers. He had some interaction with his mother in 1315 for keeping her with him. There was some crisis for his marriage with Labanyalekha. Apart from these reasons, he was not satisfied with the deviations through which the school was running at present, He wrote Rabindranath on 28 Feb 1912,
'I am seeing that this is gradually going to be a school. The working programme is so extending and persons with completely opposite mentality is becoming assembled here the it is difficult to feel the melody with which I have been attracted.'