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Rabindranath Tagore (left), Maurice Gwyer and Amiya Chakravarty, poet's secretary (right) conversing after the Nobel laureate was conferred D Litt (honoris causa) by the Oxford University at a special convocation in Santiniketan, near Calcutta, on January 01, 1940.
" I would have been glad if you would have come to Shillong this time. I am much better now. I have completed an article for Viswabharati in the form of a paragraph. I have an idea of writing something like a drama. Do you stay in Calcutta during vacation ? If you do some translation of my writing then that may be published in Viswabharati after editing.
"Something like a drama" is the first manuscript of "Raktakarabi". The main theme of the drama was gradually developing within his mind in the form of a nucleus for a long time since 1920-21 when Rabindranath wrote a letter from New York to Dinendranath in a picture post-card of ' Flowing oil Well, Shreveport, - La - II " ;
" Look at the picture attentively. It - dark chamber of kerosene oil - ( video collected from internet ). Beneat this there is oil and at the top there is smoke . This is the condition of the owner of crore of rupees who are themselves covered by the smokes. Sun rays never reach their eyes. Bali Raja was the king of the capital city of netherworld. His strength was stolen by a dwarf man sent by god. Bishnu being younger moved the elder. now the time has come. Those who were backward are going to occupy the property of the stronger - the stronger is now trembling in fear, constructing walls on all its sides - but the property of the vices will not last anymore."
He wrote to Andrews on 14th Jan 1921;
" To me, humanity is rich and large and many sided. Terefore, I feel deeply hurt when I find that, for some material gain, man's personality is mutilated in the western world and he is reduced to a machine . The same process of repression and curtailment of humanity is often advocated in our country under the name of patriotism.
