On 30 November 1917, Jagadish Chandra Bose – Tagore’s good friend and fellow Bengali polymath – opens his own research institute. For Bose, newly retired from his position as Professor in Physics at Presidency College Calcutta, the Bose Research Institute is a lifelong dream come true. For the occasion, Tagore composes a song that remains the institute’s official anthem to this day.
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Writing in 1962, Bengali writer, academic and raconteur Syed Mujtaba Ali recalls a particular memory while he was a student at Visva-Bharati. He had taken a newly acquired autograph book to his Gurudev Rabindranath, asking for a message. Rabindranath had written: ‘May my country realise that its fulfilment lies in truthful harmony with other countries’.
In a letter to C.F. Andrews, Rabindranath Tagore said, ‘We have no word for nation in our language. When we borrow this term from other people it never fits us.’1
An international peer reviewed e-journal brought out by the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), Edinburgh Napier University We are in an exceptionally new situation, but elements of older experiences may clarify our vision if one finds the proper means of access.’1 (2016)