Kalidas Nag informed, " A few Budhist came to Rabindranath in the afternoon. They promised to cooperate with any India student coming over here - this group of people is contemplative and simple - there is a difference between them and the modern group - they are ready to fight for truth, peace and friendship."
Stephen Hey wrote, " The first lecture of Rabindranath was aggressive in nature. It is obvious that the opposition group of Rabindranath had a meeting on that day in the evening to finalise their programme and on the next day before the meeting started, they began to distribute leaflets among the audience criticizing the statement delivered by Rabindranath."
Liang Ch’i-Ch’ao
(Born Feb. 23, 1873, in the district of Hsinhui, Kwangtung Province; died Jan. 19, 1929, in Peking. Chinese political figure, writer, philosopher, and historian.
Liang Ch’i-ch’ao was one of the leaders of the reform movement in China in the late 19th century. After the defeat of the reformers in 1898, he went to Japan, where he and K’ang Yu-wei established the constitutional-monarchical Alliance for the Defense of the Emperor. He opposed the revolutionary-democratic movement led by Sun Yat-sen, and after the Hsinhai Revolution (1911-13), he joined the government of the reactionary Yuan Shih-k’ai. However, in 1915-16 he actively opposed Yuan Shihk’ai’s plan to restore the monarchy)
Liang Chi Chao requested Hsu Tse to preside over the meeting. Hsu rebuked the students for disrespecting the guest. Rabindranath also was ready with proper reply. He said he had converted the two essays into one, "the rule of the giant" and "the Giant Killer" .The amended essay titled " The rule of the Giant" was printed in Viswabharati Quarterly. "The gist of the opinion of Rabindranath" , Stephen Hey said, " is Giant's rule which is nothing but the rule of modern civilisation controlled by the inconsistent development of mechanical strength." The Giant Killer of the Industrial Revolution and the unguarded expansion of the cloven-footed commerce is mainly responsible for this. He also took the modern democracy to task because a few persons, being powerful for their riches, for their own vested interest utilises human beings in disguise. He also said accusing those Cinese who called him reactionary and orthodox, "There are those in the east who have slavishly come to believe that superstitions which are modern denote progress." He also added refuting charges against him, " Those who know me that I have ever fought against obedience to the unmeaning , to traditions that are dead....I preach the freedom of man from the sevitude of the fetish of hugeness, the non-human. I refuse to be styled an enemy of enlightment because I donot stand on the side of the giant who swallows life, but on the side of Jack, the human, who defies the big, the gross, and wins victory at the end.".
Liang Ch’i-Ch’ao
(Born Feb. 23, 1873, in the district of Hsinhui, Kwangtung Province; died Jan. 19, 1929, in Peking. Chinese political figure, writer, philosopher, and historian.
Liang Chi Chao requested Hsu Tse to preside over the meeting. Hsu rebuked the students for disrespecting the guest. Rabindranath also was ready with proper reply. He said he had converted the two essays into one, "the rule of the giant" and "the Giant Killer" .The amended essay titled " The rule of the Giant" was printed in Viswabharati Quarterly. "The gist of the opinion of Rabindranath" , Stephen Hey said, " is Giant's rule which is nothing but the rule of modern civilisation controlled by the inconsistent development of mechanical strength." The Giant Killer of the Industrial Revolution and the unguarded expansion of the cloven-footed commerce is mainly responsible for this. He also took the modern democracy to task because a few persons, being powerful for their riches, for their own vested interest utilises human beings in disguise. He also said accusing those Cinese who called him reactionary and orthodox, "There are those in the east who have slavishly come to believe that superstitions which are modern denote progress." He also added refuting charges against him, " Those who know me that I have ever fought against obedience to the unmeaning , to traditions that are dead....I preach the freedom of man from the sevitude of the fetish of hugeness, the non-human. I refuse to be styled an enemy of enlightment because I donot stand on the side of the giant who swallows life, but on the side of Jack, the human, who defies the big, the gross, and wins victory at the end.".
