Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Time line of Rabitalent

Rabindranath created three manuscripts in his early days since he was eight. 1. Blue Diary, 2. Letts' Diary, 3. Malati Punthi.
At the age of 8
1. Blue Diary ; The diary was prepared by blue full size papers obtained from the staff of the zamindary estate. He had drawn lines on the papers and written poems. But this diary was not found. still some poems are available from different sources.

Rabindranath wanted to write a letter to his father and he went Mahananda Musi [Mukhopadhyay] of the estate. The poem below is referred to this Mahananda,

In the mean time Rabindranath became famous as a poet outside the jurisdiction of his family members.Satkari Datta, Biology teacher of Normal School, was inspiring him to write poems and gave him task of filling some lines in poetry



Rabindranath with his father left kolkata in the noon on 14th feb 1873 by train . This was the first time he was travelling by train. At first they came to Santiniketan.His power for writing poems was increasing at this atmosphere. 4th Falgoon 1279 is a remarkable day in the life of Rabindranath for this was the first step to Santiniketan where he passed last 40 years of his life. In Santiniketan he was let free in the natural environment of Santiniketan. Here he wrote a Kaby Upanyas , Prithirajer Parajay , full of heroic passion.Of course he could not remember a single line. It took 7 days to complete. Pravat Kumar Mukhopadhyay thought that the drama Rudrachanda written by Rabindranath was a reflection of  this. 
Letts' Diary ;
It may be that he used this Letts' Diary for his creation before Malati Punthi came into being. He wrote Avilash, Hindumelar Upahar and also some essays in this manuscript. 
At the age of 11-12
On the way to Himalayas they stopped for a few days in Santiniketan.

In Santiniketan he felt himself to be free in the open natural environment. In this situation the power of writing poetry of Rabindranath was developing.He had  already said good bye to the blue diary and collected Letts'Diary. [ Lett's Diary was well circulated at that time in different sizes. In the paper the Friend of IndiaThacker Spink & Co., G.C.Hay & Co. , R/C.Lepage & co. etc  put  their advertisement in this respect.]
He wrote here a kabya upanyas titled Prthirajer Paraajay. In a letter written to Indira Debi , he wrote that it took seven days to cmplete the book. Pravat Kumar Mukhopadhyay thought that the idea was reflected in the drama Rudrachanda. Rabindranath was 13year 7months.

During his journey to Himalayas Debendranath tried to train Rabindranath about Astrology  which was his dearest subject. Rabindranath wrote his first serial essays on Astrology and he wrote that this was my first serial essays on scientific subjects.This was published in Tattwabodhini during their stay in Bakrota.
During his (Rabindranath's) journey to Himalayas and immediate after that Letts' Diary was his manuscript for creating his Kabyas. It is believed that before the creation of the famous Malati Punthi he used this Letts' Diary was his manuscript. He created Avilash, Hindumelar Upahar etc.





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