" We shall perform "Barshamangal in Calcutta for which preparation is going . The date for this performance has been fixed on Monday which comes after coming Monday.Dinu has started teaching of songs to the students of Santiniketan. I haven't got much time to write songs after your departure. Still I wrote a few songs. An association is formed in Calcutta of Viswabharati Sammilani. I have to make it active for some days. Now I have to sail from Calcutta to Santiniketan and back. The students of Calcutta are seen to be enthusiastic. We have collected five hundred members in a day. There is no place in Calcutta to accommodate more than five hundred members so we are not able to enroll more members.I read Muktadhara inthat meeting on that day. I explained them the inner meaning of the drama. The they have appreciated it after hearing. It is going to be fixed to stage Bisarjan one day. But I don't like to be engaged with these sort of things."
It was staged on 7th Aug (22nd Shraban) in Santiniketan before the students of Ashram in full-moon night which was published in Santiniketan in Bhadra-Aswin issue.
" Barshamangal was celebrated in new the hall of the Children s' Department. The wasfinely decorated by paintings on the floor by the women of the Ashram. The Director Nandalal Basu, Sreyukta Surendranath Kar, Asit Kumar Haldar, and their disciples decorated the hall with flowers very beautifully. Gurudev, Dienendranath Thakur and Pandit Bhimrao Sashtri and their students sung many songs Gurudev sung a solo " Aaj akaasher maner katha jhara jhara baje" when itwas raining outside. In betwee two lines he recited from Jhulan, Barsha Mangal and Nirupama. In the tune of Vina the music was mixed up with the atmosphere. It was a rare incident created on that day when man and nature jointly celebrated the occasion - it is rare in one's life."
Mr. and Mrs Levi had witnessed the ceremony and madam Levi gave a vivid description in her diary about this ceremony.
