On 17 February, 1940, Rabindranath Tagore was at Shantiniketan, âthe Abode of Peaceâ some distance away from Kolkata, where he had built an institute of universal learning (Visva-Bharati) which shunned the British model of a University. This was his permanent shelter in his old days, when he couldnât move around as much as he used to in his globe-trotting years, but could be active with his writing and teaching and directing affairs.
On 17 February, 1940, Rabindranath Tagore was at Shantiniketan, “the Abode of Peace” some distance away from Kolkata, where he had built an institute of universal learning (Visva-Bharati) which shunned the British model of a University. This was his permanent shelter in his old days, when he couldn’t move around as much as he used to in his globe-trotting years, but could be active with his writing and teaching and directing affairs. On 17 February, 1940, however, the poet was nearly seventy-nine and in poor health, a tired old man who knew that he was slowly reaching the end...
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