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Tagore’s pride

Tagore was very proud of his name. In a letter to his daughter Mira he said: "There is a nexus between my name and my work. My life started in the eastern horizon, and it will end in the western horizon. I wrote both prose and poetry in Bengali for half of my life, then why did I write Gitanjali in English...? He who has kept me busy in work during weal and woes, would make me work on his own direction. Work not of my country but his word's works."

Muhammad Habibur Rahman
RABINDRANATH Tagore was the grandson of Prince Dwarakanath Thgore, the Oriental Crouesus, India's first industrial entrepreneur. The grandfather was welcomed by Queen Victoria. King Louis Phillipe and Charles Dickens. Rabindranath was the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.
By his background, training and temperament he was an aristocrat. He was not a democrat. He never willingly became a member of any organisation. Satyajit Roy said that, when talking. Th go re never used a wrong word. If you recorded his
normal conversation it would sound like a prepared speech -- the choice of words, the intonation, the inflection, everything was so incrcd -ibly perfect.
Tagore was very proud of his name. In a letter to his daughter Mira he said: "There is a nexus between my name and my work. My life started in the eastern horizon, and it will end in the western horizon. I wrote both prose and poetry in Bengali for half of my life, then why did I write Gitanjali in English...? He who has kept me busy in work during weal and woes, would make me work on his own direction. Work not of my country buthisword'sworks."
Tagore felt intuitively authentic ties of blood and affection with the
earth. On August 20,1892, in a letter to his niece Indiradebi Chaudhurani, he wrote: ”1 feel that once upon a time I was at one with the rest of the earth, that grass grew green upon me, that the autumn sun fell on me and under its rays the warm scent of youth wafted from every pore of my far-flung evergreen body.
As my waters and mountains lay spread out through every land, dumbly soaking up the radiance of a cloudless sky, an elixir of life and joy was inarticulately secreted from the immensity of my being. So it is that my feelings seem to be those of our ancient planet, ever germinant and efflorescent, shuddering with sun-kissed delight. The current of my consciousness streams through
each blade of grass, each sucking root, each sappy vein, and breaks out in the waving fields of com and in the rustling leaves of the palms.
I am impelled to give vent to this sense of having authentic ties of blood and affection with the earth. But I know that most people will not understand me and think my idea distinctly queer."
Tagore loved this world immensely. He thought that a poet's job was to keep this world fresh and new. Only those who have faith in the world would get its wealth.
Brahmachari called Tagore Gurudeva. Gandhi started to call him by that name. Though Tagore disclaimed that honorific title he often behaved like a guru. He disliked criticism. Sometimes he gave a
rejoinder by writing an article anonymously. He proudly said: T have heard it from many a person in the west that they were not only happy with my message, they got some thing from that -- a staple of life, a viaticum for the road."
Tagore had few friends. When he was sixty-slx he wrote to Ramanainda Chattapadhay that there was something wrong with him and he had only one friend in the last few decades. Nlrod C Chowdhury in his Thy Hand, Great Anarch termed him as a furiously egocentric individualist. Satyajit Roy says he found him unapproach able: "You could never get close to him." Tagore was a critic of unbounded Bengali camaraderie. He said in his Western TYaveller's Diary: "Door is closed -- these are bitter words in a man's house, and it will be barbarity if there is no curtain at all in his house. It is not easy to And the middle path. T\vo opposing views may generate harmony, their separation will only cause great disturbance. In his manners man may often forget this and he gets the beating." Tagore protested often against criticism against him that he hobnobbed with the westerners. He said that in foreign countries he
spoke on foreign civilisation in a manner that was never pleasant to his listeners. He was not humble when he reminded his readers that
when Dcshabandhu and Mahatrnaji were reticent it was he who protested against the Jalianwalabag massacre.
In his Swadeshi Samaj he regretted that congress people criticised him, saying that without reading Bentham and other savants he was not correct to say that the citizens could evolve their own path of selfrule. Later, many of his critics earned the encomiums of patriots by adopting fragments of his writing and passing them on as their own messages.
Tagore particularly referred to one of his lectures named Samasya (Problem). Many people said it was unintelligible. Tagore said: "It was all bunkum. In reality they did not like to understand that Some of them said they were the words of a poet, good to hear but worthless when put to work. And soon they would recite those sayings vociferously as if they were their own words." Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman was Chief Justice and former Chief Advisor to Caretaker Government