There are more than 10 manuscript written, edited or amended for "Raktakarabi" . Now it is difficult to comment how many of them are written in Shillong
1st draft - no marking.
2nd draft - Ms 151 (v) - 116 pages copybook [ 109 pages written] in " Students Exercise Book, No. 5" -
prepared in Calcutta.
3rd Draft - [ 151 (iii) & 151 (iv)] - ,, ,, . Specially made for / The Kamala Agency.../ Shillong.
total page no, 60 and 54- written 59 and 48. Probably these two copybooks were
bought from Shillong and used in Shillong.
Rabindranath wrote to Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis on 12th June; "I have almost completed the drama.
But I donot know whether it can be called a drama or not. I shall go to Calcutta very
very soon when you will be able to listen it. I don't want to read it earlier in
Rammohan Library."
He wrote that he read it in Shillong. Hem Chattopadhyay wrote, " He read some pages of "Raktakarabi"
before us. It is difficult to say if there is any magic in his reading. We became moved to hear that.
The 2nd draft was published in "Collection of Rabindrabiksha" in Shraban issue.The main thing is the name Nandini is first used in this draft in place of "Khanjani". [ In some pages " Sunanda" was used.]. An introduction was given in this draft.to introduce the Drama. The name of the flower "Raktakarabi" was used twice in this draft - the first was at the begining " Amake manabe na, ami parechi Raktakarabi" the 2nd time was at the beginning of the fight "tomar oi Raktakarabir mala dao amake pariye".
The first draft was started with the dialogue of Phagulal and Chandra and the draft was started with the dialogue of Raja and Nandini.
The third draft was published in Rabindrabiksha Paus issue. It was started with the dialogue of Prof. and Nandini.
Some new songs were added to these three drafts..
In Shillong Rabindranath wrote one bengali essay other than Raktakarabi i.e. "Shillonger Chithi".
The theme of Raktakarabi was Rabindranath's idea about socialism.
1st draft - no marking.
2nd draft - Ms 151 (v) - 116 pages copybook [ 109 pages written] in " Students Exercise Book, No. 5" -
prepared in Calcutta.
3rd Draft - [ 151 (iii) & 151 (iv)] - ,, ,, . Specially made for / The Kamala Agency.../ Shillong.
total page no, 60 and 54- written 59 and 48. Probably these two copybooks were
bought from Shillong and used in Shillong.
Rabindranath wrote to Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis on 12th June; "I have almost completed the drama.
But I donot know whether it can be called a drama or not. I shall go to Calcutta very
very soon when you will be able to listen it. I don't want to read it earlier in
Rammohan Library."
He wrote that he read it in Shillong. Hem Chattopadhyay wrote, " He read some pages of "Raktakarabi"
before us. It is difficult to say if there is any magic in his reading. We became moved to hear that.
The 2nd draft was published in "Collection of Rabindrabiksha" in Shraban issue.The main thing is the name Nandini is first used in this draft in place of "Khanjani". [ In some pages " Sunanda" was used.]. An introduction was given in this draft.to introduce the Drama. The name of the flower "Raktakarabi" was used twice in this draft - the first was at the begining " Amake manabe na, ami parechi Raktakarabi" the 2nd time was at the beginning of the fight "tomar oi Raktakarabir mala dao amake pariye".
The first draft was started with the dialogue of Phagulal and Chandra and the draft was started with the dialogue of Raja and Nandini.
The third draft was published in Rabindrabiksha Paus issue. It was started with the dialogue of Prof. and Nandini.
Some new songs were added to these three drafts..
In Shillong Rabindranath wrote one bengali essay other than Raktakarabi i.e. "Shillonger Chithi".
The theme of Raktakarabi was Rabindranath's idea about socialism.
