"After two years Nandalal Basu told him that he had done a great job by taking the inattentive and notorious boys from Santiniketan and tried to make them working in Surul.We thought that it would difficult for him to manage them."
Actually they were out of control. Subirendranath and Satyen Basu had to be driven out from the School of Agriculture and Niteswar, Sanat and Kulada Prasad left Surul. Elmhirst wrote in his "Personal Reminiscences" , " Rabindranath directly accused Andrews for the revolutionary attitude of Satyen Basu and his associates." When Rabindranath was in abroad, Andrews and Nepal Chandra Roy engaged some non-cooperative youths in rural
re-constructional work at Surul But the youths wearing hand woven clothes (Khaddar-made) could not mix up with the villagers due to their fake prestige. The villagers too did not accept them as their own people. As a result their attempt failed. Satyen Basu was one of them. He subsequently joined as an assistant worker in the library..
