Pratima devi biography of michael
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Rabindranath was at Selaidah keeping Mrinalini with her five children, Madhurilata (11)-born 1886, Rathi (9)-born -1888, Renuka (7)-1891, Mira (4)-1894 and Shamindra (1)- 1896.
Formal Education :
Now Rabindranath decided to bring them to Selaidah for schooling because he had no faith in Indian Schools. He brought all of them to lead a family life in a lonely village, Selaidah, from the luxurious building at Jorasanko and started a residential school at Kuthibadi, Selaidah for his children in 1898 while a school building was being constructed in Santiniketan,•
Rabindranath Tagore’s selected letters to Nirmalkumari Mahalanobis had been published in 1938 beneath the title Pathe-O-Pather Prante. The sixty letters included in this volume had been personally selected bygd him from among the five hundred plus letters he had written to her. This volume was translated bygd Somdatta Mandal and included in the book ‘Kobi’ and ‘Rani’: Memoirs and Correspondences of Nirmalkumari Mahalanobis and Rabindranath Tagore (Bolpur: Birutjatio Sahitya Sammilani, 2020). Selections from some of these letters had been included in borderless journal in its September 2021 issue. A few more letters have been selected here for the benefit of the readers.
Letter 33
Yesterday I reached the Japanese port named Moji. Tomorrow I will reach Kobe. A bird builds its nest with straw and twigs; it does not take long for it to leave that nest and go away. We build our nests mainly with things of the mind, with work, studies and thoughts and an invisible shelter st
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Saraswati
Principal Hindu goddess, goddess of knowledge, music, and speech
This article is about the Hindu goddess. For the Vedic river, see Sarasvati River. For other uses, see Saraswati (disambiguation).
Saraswati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती, IAST: Sarasvatī), also spelled as Sarasvati, is one of the principal goddesses in Hinduism, revered as the goddess of knowledge, education, learning, arts, speech, poetry, music, purification, language and culture.[1][2] Together with the goddesses Lakshmi and Parvati, she forms the trinity, known as the Tridevi.[4][5][6] Sarasvati is a pan-Indian deity, venerated not only in Hinduism but also in Jainism and Buddhism.[6][7]
She is one of the prominent goddesses in the Vedic tradition (1500 to 500 BCE) who retains her significance in later Hinduism.[1] In the Vedas, her characteristics and attributes are closely connected with the Sarasvati River, making her one