Rabindranath came to Calcutta on 8th July. When he would come to Calcutta, he became busy attending meetings and interviews. But he didn't like Calcutta as it was void in natural environment. He wrote to Ranu Adhikari on 13 July; " The city Calcutta - I don't like it at all. It seems to me as if an animal of bricks and woods is going to swallow me. Moreover, the sky is now completely filled with clouds. It is drizzling since last night. The thing is " Barshamangal" ceremony will be held in Shraban this year.But the problem is, will the song constructed in the field of Santiniketan will be appreciated in the noisy place of Calcutta."
Rabindranath constructed a song, "Shrabana Meghera Adheka Duar".
On 14th Julyhe met the advocate general Satishranjan Das in the evening and wrote to Elmhirst informing him; " he was greatly impressed with what he heard from me about our university. He promised me that he would do his best to help us - and that from him means a lot."
He wrote in the same letter on 15th July, " I am going to address a public meeting this evening when I shall ask my audience to help me in forming an association in Calcutta through which Viswabharati will be able to establish its communication with the student community of Calcutta. I am sure my appeal will meet with success."
The meeting was held in Rammohan Library Hall on 15th July.
The Servant, news paper, reported about the lecture of Rabindranath,
" He spoke without notes and tried to recapture for his audience, the majority of whom were young college students, something of the spirit of the past in the making of which he had his share. It was a tale of disappointment which has made its contribution to the life which the poet has been led to choose at the present time.
Rabindranath told us that when on the eve of the Swadeshi agitation he called on his countrymen to begin building up the fabric of their natural life from the village upwards depending solely on their own initiative and on their own resources, disregarding the presence of and activities of bureaucracy, the wise men of the generation declared that a man, who had never been known to have studied Bentham and Mill, had no business to pose as as the constitution maker of his society, however great he might be as a maker of its verses. The response of the young was eager, but their enthusiasm was short lived . And the disappointment of those days Rabindranath has not been able to shake off; from being the maker of the songs of his people he is today the builder of a centre of international communion which would reconcile the East and the West. "
Anandabazar Patrika wrote on this matter on 16th July;
" Rabindranath said that he had built a centre of communion of East and West, he founded ViswaBharati. He invited many scientists, historians litterateurs to come at least once in a year and deliver lecture here. In that case the students of India will have nothing to travel so long distance to acquire knowledge. No nation can prosper without the amalgamation of knowledge of other countries. In his conclusion he said with this aims and objects he founded a branch of Viswabharati in Calcutta."Rabindranath in his previous letter said to Elmhirst that he would be going to Patidsar and would be returning back on day before Thursday when they would have the first meeting of the association."
He wrote to Ranu on 2nd July, " I am floating over a river nemed Atrai...."
Rabindranath constructed a song, "Shrabana Meghera Adheka Duar".
On 14th Julyhe met the advocate general Satishranjan Das in the evening and wrote to Elmhirst informing him; " he was greatly impressed with what he heard from me about our university. He promised me that he would do his best to help us - and that from him means a lot."
He wrote in the same letter on 15th July, " I am going to address a public meeting this evening when I shall ask my audience to help me in forming an association in Calcutta through which Viswabharati will be able to establish its communication with the student community of Calcutta. I am sure my appeal will meet with success."
The meeting was held in Rammohan Library Hall on 15th July.
The Servant, news paper, reported about the lecture of Rabindranath,
" He spoke without notes and tried to recapture for his audience, the majority of whom were young college students, something of the spirit of the past in the making of which he had his share. It was a tale of disappointment which has made its contribution to the life which the poet has been led to choose at the present time.
Rabindranath told us that when on the eve of the Swadeshi agitation he called on his countrymen to begin building up the fabric of their natural life from the village upwards depending solely on their own initiative and on their own resources, disregarding the presence of and activities of bureaucracy, the wise men of the generation declared that a man, who had never been known to have studied Bentham and Mill, had no business to pose as as the constitution maker of his society, however great he might be as a maker of its verses. The response of the young was eager, but their enthusiasm was short lived . And the disappointment of those days Rabindranath has not been able to shake off; from being the maker of the songs of his people he is today the builder of a centre of international communion which would reconcile the East and the West. "
Anandabazar Patrika wrote on this matter on 16th July;
" Rabindranath said that he had built a centre of communion of East and West, he founded ViswaBharati. He invited many scientists, historians litterateurs to come at least once in a year and deliver lecture here. In that case the students of India will have nothing to travel so long distance to acquire knowledge. No nation can prosper without the amalgamation of knowledge of other countries. In his conclusion he said with this aims and objects he founded a branch of Viswabharati in Calcutta."Rabindranath in his previous letter said to Elmhirst that he would be going to Patidsar and would be returning back on day before Thursday when they would have the first meeting of the association."
He wrote to Ranu on 2nd July, " I am floating over a river nemed Atrai...."
