After a few days Santiniketan observed Barsha Sangeet on 12 Aug 1921. This was to be held on 19th July, but due to tiredness and illness of Rabindranath it was shifted to this date.
Rabindranath became enthusiastic at the success of this programme.
On 14th Aug, rabindranath came to Calcutta. The booklet titled " Shikshar Milan" was published on this date.
SHIKSHAR MILAN - [ Coordination of Culture] A plea for devising system of education co-ordinating all that was good in Eastern and Western Culture.
Jatiya Shiksha Parishad arranged a felicitation ceremony of Rabindranath to be presided by Ashutosh Choudhury on 15th Aug,1921, at University Institute Hall. Rabindranath read the essay Shikshar Milan on that day.
Though invitation cards were issued to different persons for this occasion , the huge number of people, inspite of bad weather, came to attend the programme since at 12 o'clock though it was to be started at 4 pm and at about 5.30 pm it became impossible to manage the situation due to heavy rush. at about 5.45 pm Rabindranath and Andrews came to the hall when the mob became out of control and they rushed into the hall.
When Rabindranath wanted to read his essay, the mob was putting slogans, Bandemataram, Gandhijiki Joy etc., but Rabindranath calmly and patiently read his essay.
Jatindranath Choudhury requested the audience not to clapp their hands at the middle of the lecture.Because he knew that most of the Indians had given up clapping as it was not an syatem. Jatindranath Choudhury raised the proposal of vote of thanks which was supported by Bipin Chandra Pal.
The essay "Shikshar Milan" was published in Sabuj Patra, Pravasi and Bharati.
Romain Rolland wrote in his diary about the lecture on 27th June 1926 that he had heard the news from Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis,' After returning from Europe when Rabindranath first addressed the people in Calcutta, a large number of people had occuppied the hall before the scheduled time for beginning. This was a general practice to greet Rabindranath when he used to enter the hall. But today there was no such sign, only a frozen-silence prevailed from beginning to end. If his influence as a great poet, his global reckonition was absent he might have been killed or would tear him off.
On 18th Aug in the afternoon at the Alfred Theatre Hall Rabindranath delivered a lecture "On Education" in a meeting presided by Acharya Prafulla Chjandra Roy. The Indian daily News reported, " we are asked to state that the lecture of Dr. Rabindranath Tagore on "The Problem of Education" announced to bedelivered at the Alfredtheatre this evening will not be a repetition of the University Institute Lecture. The poet's song will be given by a choir. Admission will be by tickets priced re. 1, annas 8 and 4 eachto be had at the Indian publishing House.
Rabindranath became enthusiastic at the success of this programme.
On 14th Aug, rabindranath came to Calcutta. The booklet titled " Shikshar Milan" was published on this date.
SHIKSHAR MILAN - [ Coordination of Culture] A plea for devising system of education co-ordinating all that was good in Eastern and Western Culture.
Jatiya Shiksha Parishad arranged a felicitation ceremony of Rabindranath to be presided by Ashutosh Choudhury on 15th Aug,1921, at University Institute Hall. Rabindranath read the essay Shikshar Milan on that day.
Though invitation cards were issued to different persons for this occasion , the huge number of people, inspite of bad weather, came to attend the programme since at 12 o'clock though it was to be started at 4 pm and at about 5.30 pm it became impossible to manage the situation due to heavy rush. at about 5.45 pm Rabindranath and Andrews came to the hall when the mob became out of control and they rushed into the hall.
When Rabindranath wanted to read his essay, the mob was putting slogans, Bandemataram, Gandhijiki Joy etc., but Rabindranath calmly and patiently read his essay.
Jatindranath Choudhury requested the audience not to clapp their hands at the middle of the lecture.Because he knew that most of the Indians had given up clapping as it was not an syatem. Jatindranath Choudhury raised the proposal of vote of thanks which was supported by Bipin Chandra Pal.
The essay "Shikshar Milan" was published in Sabuj Patra, Pravasi and Bharati.
Romain Rolland wrote in his diary about the lecture on 27th June 1926 that he had heard the news from Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis,' After returning from Europe when Rabindranath first addressed the people in Calcutta, a large number of people had occuppied the hall before the scheduled time for beginning. This was a general practice to greet Rabindranath when he used to enter the hall. But today there was no such sign, only a frozen-silence prevailed from beginning to end. If his influence as a great poet, his global reckonition was absent he might have been killed or would tear him off.
On 18th Aug in the afternoon at the Alfred Theatre Hall Rabindranath delivered a lecture "On Education" in a meeting presided by Acharya Prafulla Chjandra Roy. The Indian daily News reported, " we are asked to state that the lecture of Dr. Rabindranath Tagore on "The Problem of Education" announced to bedelivered at the Alfredtheatre this evening will not be a repetition of the University Institute Lecture. The poet's song will be given by a choir. Admission will be by tickets priced re. 1, annas 8 and 4 eachto be had at the Indian publishing House.Sita devi was present in this meeting also.She wrote, " Inspite of heavy rain, the assembly was good and there were good number of females.The president entered the hall after the speaker's entry and rushed to Rabindranath to embrace him. Before the beginning of the meeting an opening song was sung, " Desha desha nandita kari , mandrita taba bheri" .In introducing Rabindranath, the president said, " I have devoted myself in studying science through out my life, I can defifinitely say that it may be possible for India to give up everything of Europe its development of science and humanities. Then we have to face disaster."
At the beginning of his lecture Rabindranath said, " i am not representing any political party".
Sita Devi wrote, " This time he did not read from his writings. He delivered his lecture orally and became emotional at the end of his speech as if burning lava is coming out from his mouth.".the meeting ended by sining the song, "Jana gana mana adhinayaka" Rs.660.25 p were collected by selling tickets which was handed to the famine-relief fund of Khulna.
The Bengalee commented on 21 Aug about the lecture, " His last lecture at the Alfred Theatre on Thursday was a surprise to many of his non-cooperating friends, amongst whom the speech has caused siderable flutter."
The verbal lecture note was published in New India of Madras.
There were many supporters of Non-cooperation Movement in Santiniketan but their reactions towards this essay was not available.
