Rabisarani

The poem Rakhi by Annadashankar Roy attracts Poet's praise. Tagore also likes Annadashankar's prose style. Rabindranath expresses his liking in a letter to Annadashankar.

Tagore writes a letter to Satyabhushan Sen saying that his short stories are markedly different from the contemporary English short stories. Hence no need of translation of his short stories.

Poet arrives at Lucknow.

Tagore arrives at Kanpur.

Poet arrives at Agra and then starts for Ahmedabad.

Poet is at Ahmedabad, down with influenza. Expresses his apprehension regarding his absence in the ensuing Bangiya Sahitya-Sammelan. He sends his written speech Panchashordhe.

Poet arrives at Baroda.

Lectures at Baroda--'Man the Artist'.

Poet delivers lecture at Teachers' Training College, Baroda.

Poet cannot attend Bangiya Sahitya Sammelan at Calcutta (now Kolkata). Swarnakumari Devi reads out poet's written speech Panchashordhe.

Poet goes to Santiniketan.

Tagore is at Santiniketan. Attends the annual festival at Sriniketan. Leonard Elmhirst attends the celebration.

Meeting of the Sriniketan Cooperative Society. Governor Stanley Jackson inaugurates the meeting, Elmhirst presides. The Poet is criticized by the Swadeshis for inviting the Governor.

Writes to Pramatha Chaudhury asking him to find out the possibility of engaging Sri Satishchandra Ghatak, a contributor of Sabuj Patra, as the Bengali teacher.

Poet sails for Europe with Rathindranath, Pratima Devi, Pupe (Rathindra & Pratima's adopted child), Dr. Suhrid Chaudhury and poet's Secretary Aryanayakam.

Reaches France. Stays as a guest of Albert Kahn. Painting is in full swing.

Rabindranath Tagore writes a letter to William Rothenstein inviting Rothenstein to Villa Kahn to stay with him.

Exhibition of his 125 paintings at the Pigalle gallery starts by the initiative and financial support of Andree Karpeles, Victoria Ocampo and Countess de Noailles.

Birthday is celebrated at Paris by the Indians.

Poet is in London.

Tagore is in Birmingham at the Woodbrook centre of the Quakers'. Poet Amiya Chakraborty and his wife Haimanti Devi meet Tagore. Delivers a lecture titled 'Civilization and Progress'

Following a meeting with the Poet Manchester Guardian reports 'India's ambassador is not Mahatma Gandhi but the poet and thinker Tagore.'

Tagore delivers his first Hibbert Lecture on 19th May at Manchester College, Oxford. Principal L. P. Jacks introduces poet to the audience. Two more lectures on 21st and 26th May. All three lectures are compiled as The Religion of Man. Manchester Guardian reports -- "No series of the Hibbert Lecture has aroused more public interest than the present one". Prof. Sarvepally Radhakrishnan is also at Oxford. Bother Tagore and Radhakrishnan are felicitated.

Poet attends Quakers' annual conference on invitation. He explains the causes of plight of India. This is the first instance in the 226 year history of Quakers that a foreigner is invited to speak. Answering the query whether India wants freedom, the Poet replies -- "There can be no absolute independence for man...Independence is in his nature and it is the highest goal. All that is best in humanity has been achieved by mutual exchange of minds among peoples that are far apart. Let the best minds of the East and West join hands and establish a truly human bond of independence between England and India."

Poet gives another lecture at the Chapel of Manchester College. The title of the lecture is Night and Morning. A member of the audience comments -- "His English is as beautiful to hear as to read…his words are music."

The last part of the Hibbert Lecture is delivered. Sir Michael Sadler, Principal of the University College, thanks Tagore with these words -- "We shall never forget in Oxford the gift you have given us and the inspiration you have brought to us."

Poet comes back to Woodbrook, Birmingham. Delivers one more lecture.

Tagore is in London. Stays at Aryabhavan. Meets the Indian High Commissioner Sir Atul Chatterjee.

Painting exhibition of Tagore at Woodbrook, Birmingham in his absence.

India House arranges Arnol Bake's lecture on Tagore's music along with an exhibition of his paintings. Tagore invites Michael Sadler and Sir Muirhead Bone.

Poet is at the residence of Elmhirst at Dartington Hall, Totnes. Rathindranath with his family stays here.

Tagore's open letter (an appeal to idealism) gets published in the Spectator. He writes -- "I find it difficult to do my duty today in a spirit of patience and calmness and at the same time to do justice to the Indian cause, to myself and my Indian friends and my friends in this country. For the atmosphere of mutual relationship between India and Great Britain has grown dark with suspicion and suffering...For the sake of justice I must declare that in such conflict between an unarmed people and a government in possession of unlimited power of destruction our sufferings would have been terribly greater under any imperialistic rulers other than the British...'

Tagore sends his message for Universal Relations Peace Conference--'I regard the race and colour prejudice which barricades human beings against each other as the greatest evil of modern times, which should be overcome if humanity must be realized as one spirit.'

Poet is at Berlin with Aryanayakam and Amiya Chakraborty.

Meets the members of the Reichstag and in the evening broadcasts a talk on the radio.

Poet meets Einstein at his residence at Kaputh and later at Harnak Haus.

An exhibition of Tagore's paintings is opened at Gallery Moller in Berlin.

Tagore visits Dresden (17th - 19th July) and Munich (19th - 24th July). A civic reception is accorded to the Poet at the Town Hall (19th July). Visits the famous Deutsches Museum. Poet is deeply impressed by the Planetarium. Spends a whole day at Obermmergau where he witnesses the traditional Passion Play. This show inspired him to write his one of the original English poems The Child (later translated in Bengali as Shishutirtha), which would later be published by Allen & Unwin.

An exhibition of Tagore's paintings opens at Gallery Caspari.

Tagore starts writing a script for a film. This will ultimately become his long English poem The Child.

During 24th July to 6th August Rabindranath makes a rapid tour through Frankfurt, Marburg and Coblenz and gets acquainted with the Youth Movement of Germany known as 'Wandervogel'.

Tagore goes to Denmark, arrives in Copenhagen, capital of Denmark.

Tagore visits Peter Maniche's International People's College at Elsinore. Attends a meeting of the New Education Fellowship at Elsinore.

An exhibition of Tagore's paintings opens in Copenhagen.

On his return to Berlin, Tagore meets Einstein once again.

Andrews joins Poet and travels with him to Geneva. They arrive at Geneva on 19th August. Stays nearly for a month as a guest of Mis Storey.

Tagore writes to Rothenstein informing him about the warm welcome his pictures have found in Germany.

A communal riot takes place in Dhaka. Government takes an indifferent stance. Poet writes an open letter to the Spectator -- "At Dacca in Eastern Bengal, there have been communal riots in which men of vicious character have been brought in so as to increase the mischief, and the unspeakable atrocities occurred. Yet according to reports which have reached me, the police have either stood idly by or allowed the evil to go on with indifference and contempt."

Meets Madam Dina in Geneva.

Arrives at Moscow accompanied by Amiya Chakbaborty, Aryanayakam, Dr. Harry Timberes, Miss Einstein and Saumyendranath Tagore (Rabindranath's grand-nephew).

A reception party is arranged at Voks Buildings. Professor F. N. Petroff, President of the Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries presides. In the evening a concert is arranged in Tagore's honour jointly by the Voks and the Moscow Association of Writers at the Club-house of the Association. He meets Professor Kogan, President of the Academy of Arts; Professor Pinkervitch, Director of the Second Moscow State University; Madame Livinoff, Fedor Gladkov, author of Cement, Essev and other writers and artists.

Tagore has a confidential talk with Professor Petrov in the morning. This talk has been published only in 1961.

Tagore received representatives of Moscow students and professors at the afternoon.

Tagore shows his paintings to the Director of the Art Gallery and other art critics.

In the evening around 7:30 PM, Tagore attends the 2nd Moscow Art Theatre and watches the play Peter the First.

Visits the Pioneers' Commune (Vocational Training Centre for Orphan Children) where a young pioneer girl of 14 reads a message of welcome. The Poet gives a short reply and answers the questions put to him by his youthful audience and at their request sings his Jana gana mana adhinayaka.

Visits the Federation of the Union of Cinematographic Artists.

In the morning, Tagore meets the Deputy Peoples' Commissar of Foreign Affairs of USSR.

At 7:30 PM, poet visits the Union Cinema Association and is shown the film The Old and the New and famous film director and film theorist Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin.

Visits the Central Peasant's House where he has a talk with the peasants and answers their questions.

An exhibition of his paintings is opened by Professor Petroff at 3 PM at the State Moscow Museum of New Western Art. His paintings are described as 'a great manifestation of an artisitc life' by Soviet art critics like Krishy, Sedorov and others. Also attends the performance of Tolstoy's Resurrection at the first Moscow Arts Theatre, and of Peter the Great at the Second Moscow Art Theatre, and of Baiderka (an Indian love legend) at the First State Opera House.

Deputy Peoples' Commissar of Foreign Affairs invites Tagore at 5 PM for a friendly conversation at tea.

At 9 AM Tagore leaves for the Summer Villa of L. M. Karakhan in the outskirts of Moscow. This is done to give sufficient rest to the poet. The first of the letters later will be included in Rasiar Chithi (letter number 2) is written from here on this day.

Tagore writes two more letters, one to Rathindranath and the other to his grand daughter Pupumani.

At 4 PM Tagore returns to his hotel at Moscow. At 4:30 PM he is visited by a group of Moscow Orientalists.

Tagore is visited by the well-known composer S. A. Balasanyan who had set many poems of Tagore to music. The composer presents the music notes to the poet.

At 10 AM the eminent Soviet physician Prof. V. F. Zelenin visits Tagore and has a thorough medical check-up of the poet. He also advises the poet to spend more time in fresh air. Between 2 to 4 PM Tagore goes for a site-seeing excursion in Moscow and its suburbs.

Meets students and answers their queries and tells them about his own school at Santiniketan. Visits the Industrial Labourers' Commune, Central Ethnographic State Museum, The Children's Creche and Kindergarten attached to Moscow Dynamo Works, the Museum of Handicrafts, the Museum of Revolution and several other institutions.

In the afternoon, Tagore has a meeting with the Deputy Editor of Nevo Dvom, the Gypsy Journal.

Delivers his farewell speech at a big reception organized in the Central House of Trade Unions -- "I am thankful, truly thankful, to you all who have helped me in visualizing in a concrete form the dream which I have been carrying for a long time in my mind, the dream of emancipating the people's minds which have been shackled for ages." At this meeting the Soviet poet Shingalee recites an Ode to Rabindranath especially composed for the occasion, and the author Galperin recites in Russian three of Tagore's poems and the actor Simonov reads selected scenes from The Post Office.

Tagore gives a long interview to a correspondent of Izvestia which is a long-running high-circulation daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia.

Poet leaves Russia for Germany. Takes rest in Germany for 3/4 days as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Mendel (friends of Einstein) at Wannsee in Berlin.

Tagore meets Einstein in Berlin for the third time in 1930.

Sails for the United States of America accompanied by Dr. Harry Timbers and Aryanayakam.

Reaches New York .

Tagore arrives at Williamstown, a town in Berkshire County, in the northwest corner of Massachusetts, for a few days of rest at the summer residence of Bishop Paddock.

Tagore gets indisposed while at New Haven which is the principal municipality in Greater New Haven in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

"City of Calcutta anxious about your illness. ... Wire health." Telegram sent by Subhas Chandra Bose.

Tagore arrives at Philadelphia which is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the fifth-most-populous in the United States.

A delegation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom visits Tagore at Philadelphia.

Tagore arrives at New York. Stays at a Park Avenue Apartment.

Rabindranath gets luncheon reception by educationist William Heard Kilpatrick, a major figure in the progressive education movement of the early 20th century, of Columbia University and others.

Writesa letter to the Spectator from America deploring Gandhi's hesitation to participate in the Round Table Conference, which in the Poet's opinion 'could have been used as a platform where from to send his voice to all those all over the world who represent the future history of man'.

Exhibition of Tagore's paintings is opened at the 56th street galleries.

A big public banquet is organised in Poet's honour at the Biltmore Hotel by 400 leading citizens of New York, although there is no poet or writer amongst them.

Tagore visits Washington, D.C. and meets President Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of United States.

The Discussion Guild and the Indian Society of America hold a reception at the Carnegie Hall where the Poet speaks on educational problems (The Meeting of East and West). Helen Keller is present in the reception. After the lecture Keller is trying to understand what Tagore said, through lip-read as Tagore briefly describes his lecture.

Tagore speaks on The First and Last Prophet of Persia at a meeting under the auspices of the Bahais. Meets Helen Keller.

Tagore meets Einstein again in New York at 1172 Park Avenue.

Helen Keller sends flowers and a letter to Tagore.

Tagore meets philosopher Will Durant whose book The Case for India had been prohibited entry into Bengal.

Danseuse Ruth Saint Dennis, the modern dance pioneer who introduces eastern ideas into the art, raises funds through a few of her dance recitals based on Tagore's poems. The poet gives away the proceeds for the relief of the unemployed in New York.

Exhibition of his paintings takes place at New York and Boston.

Tagore leaves the United States of America.

Reaches England.

Declines invitation to act as mediator in the Round Table Conference dispute over the communal question.

Reception by Evelyn Wrench, the Editor of the Spectator, at Hyde Park Hotel.