The Sahitya Sammilani of the domiciled Bengalees organised a Welcome ceremony of Rabindranath Tagore in Suneiram Hall on 25th March presided by the editor of Rangoon Mail, Nripendra Chandra Bandyopadhyay. Moyajjem Ali read the felicitation paper of Rabindranath The biographer of Rabindranath wrote;
" In the background the head Teacher, Mohit Kumar Mukhopadhyay of a local Bengalee school named Bengal Academy and the litterateur Sudhir Kumar Choudhury was actively participating in construction of felicitation paper and arrangement of Welcome ceremony. They also arranged a dance programme performed by a Burmese lady." Mohit Kumar was his elder brother and Sudhir Kumar , husband of Sita Devi (daughter of Ramananda) Viswabharati wrote on the dance programme of the Burmese lady in the Sahitya Sammilani;
"provided the best entertainment for the poet by organising a classical Burmese dance party to the accompaniment of Burmese orchestra dominated by a dainty Burmese Girl interpreting the delicate dance rhythms of Burma, which fascinated the poet and provoked the celebrated artist Nandalal Bose to draw a series of quick sketches while the dance was going on."
Rabindranath wrote to Ranu;
" day before yesterday in the evening I witnessed a dance programme of a Burmese girl. Her dance was very sweet. it was as if the gentle breeze was blowing over the leaves sometimes from the east and sometimes from the south which was making it emotional."
Kalidas Nag took the note of the lecture delivered by Rabindranath at the ceremony of Sahitya Sammilani.
The arrival of Rabindranath created eagerness among the residents of Rangoon about Viswabharati. To convert this eagerness into monitory benefit Elmhirst wanted to form a branch of Viswabharati Sammilani. With this object he wrote to Rathindranath to send immediately with Sudhir Kumar or Mohit Kumar the forms of ordinary members and life members and also the rules and regulations of Viswabharati Sammilani.
" In the background the head Teacher, Mohit Kumar Mukhopadhyay of a local Bengalee school named Bengal Academy and the litterateur Sudhir Kumar Choudhury was actively participating in construction of felicitation paper and arrangement of Welcome ceremony. They also arranged a dance programme performed by a Burmese lady." Mohit Kumar was his elder brother and Sudhir Kumar , husband of Sita Devi (daughter of Ramananda) Viswabharati wrote on the dance programme of the Burmese lady in the Sahitya Sammilani;
"provided the best entertainment for the poet by organising a classical Burmese dance party to the accompaniment of Burmese orchestra dominated by a dainty Burmese Girl interpreting the delicate dance rhythms of Burma, which fascinated the poet and provoked the celebrated artist Nandalal Bose to draw a series of quick sketches while the dance was going on."
Rabindranath wrote to Ranu;
" day before yesterday in the evening I witnessed a dance programme of a Burmese girl. Her dance was very sweet. it was as if the gentle breeze was blowing over the leaves sometimes from the east and sometimes from the south which was making it emotional."
Kalidas Nag took the note of the lecture delivered by Rabindranath at the ceremony of Sahitya Sammilani.
The arrival of Rabindranath created eagerness among the residents of Rangoon about Viswabharati. To convert this eagerness into monitory benefit Elmhirst wanted to form a branch of Viswabharati Sammilani. With this object he wrote to Rathindranath to send immediately with Sudhir Kumar or Mohit Kumar the forms of ordinary members and life members and also the rules and regulations of Viswabharati Sammilani.
