Rabisarani

The Poet goes to Santiniketan in order to engage himself into various activities of the School.

Rabindranath comes back to Calcutta (now Kolkata) for the preparation of Maghotsav. His six songs are sung for this purpose.

• Morey daki laye jao

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• Balo dao morey balo dao

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• Saphal kara he prabhu

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• Ami ki bole koriba

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• Dako morey aji

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• Ami jene shune tabu

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The poet goes to Shilaidaha for the purpose of supervising his estate.

Comes back to Calcutta (now Kolkata).

Goes to Santiniketan.

The poet goes to Ballygunj to meet Radhakishor Manikya, the prince of Tripura.

Mohitchandra Sen comes to Santiniketan for conducting examination of the students of the Brahmacharyashram. Later on, Mohitchandra Sen engaged himself in the service of the school and editing of Tagore's books of poems which will be named Kabya Grantha.

A reminder for repaying the debt of Rs. 40,000/- to Mitichand Nakhtar comes to the poet. This money was borrowed by the poet in August 1899 for the Tagore & Company. Poet seeks help from Priyanath Sen for repaying the debt.

Rabindranath gets introduced to Kakuzo Okakura, a Japanese scholar who is a propounder of 'Asia is One' slogan, through Sisiter Nivedita.

Rabindranath reads his essay 'Nababarsha' (New Year) during the prayer of Bengali New Year.

Three of the first batch of teachers including Brahmabandhab Upadhyay do not rejoin after the summer vacation in June. Manoranjan Bandyopadhyay joins the school as Headmaster.

Hori, a young Japanese, joins the school to study Sanskrit.

Imposition of tuition fees for the students - the practice of free studentship comes to an end.

The poet's wife Mrinalini gets attacked by an unknown disease and is shifted to Calcutta (now Kolkata) for treatment.

Felicitation of Jagadish Chandra Bose under the leadership of the Poet.

Poet comes back to Calcutta (now Kolkata) in order to look after his ailing wife.

Formulates in a letter to Kunjalal Ghosh, a teacher of the school and the son-in-law of Shibnath Shastri, the aims and ideals of the school.

Mrinalini Devi dies at the age of 29 after ailing for three months.

Poet's daughter Renuka is also seriously ill. She is diagnosed with Tuberculosis.

The poet composes Smaran (In Memoriam), a series of moving poems to enshrine his wife's memories.

Rabindranath writes a letter to Manoranjan Bandyopadhyay regarding the racial discrimination of the brahmins and the non-brahmins. Manoranjan seeks to know whether the brahmin students as gesture of reverence are going to touch the feet of the non-brahmin teachers or not. The poet reverts saying whatever is against the Hindu social norms will not be indulged in their school. At the same time the poet asks whether non-brahmin students should bow in reverence to the non-brahmin teachers.

The poet returns to Santiniketan with two minor sons and two daughters (one married). The responsibility of the family is entrusted on aunt Rajlakshmi Devi.

Barhmatsav takes place in the usual manner. Jagadish Chandra Bose and Hemchandra Mullick visit Santiniketan. The poet delivers a speech titled Dharmer Saral Adarsha (The Simple Principles of Religion).