Kolkata, Apr 1 : Visva-Bharati university has decided to set up a museum for Rabindranath Tagore's "unsung" son Rathindranath, the man behind the poet's archives.
The museum will house articles like a pair of reading glasses, a shawl, a tie and four pieces of wooden handicraft that Rathindranath created himself.
Rathindranath's articles were handed over to vice-chancellor Sushanta Duttaguptat on Sunday by a retired Kolkata school teacher Jayita Chakraborty, with whose parents, Rathindranath stayed in Dehradum from 1953 to 1961.
Rathindranath died in Dehradun in 1961.
The museum will be located at Guha Ghar, the place where Rathindranath stayed in Santiniketan.
According to officials, Rathindranath made two wooden boxes, which he gifted to Jayita on her wedding, a pen stand and a showpiece during his last years in Dehradun.
“The gifts from Jayita are quite valuable for us. Rathindranath Tagore loved Jayita like his daughter. We already have some memorabilia of him. These gifts will add to the collection. We will set up a museum on Rathindranath Tagore soon at Guha Ghar in the Uttarayan complex,” said Tapati Mukherjee, director of Rabindra Bhavana, the Tagore archives and museum on the Visva-Bharati campus.
The reason behind creating the museum is to give recognition to Rathindranath as an architect and an agronomist, says Mukherjee.
Rathindranath was the youngest son of Tgore and was the first vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati. He studied agriculture science in Illinois.
At Visva-Bharati, he taught plant genetics and earned praise for making a technical subject interesting to the students.
Rathindranath built Guha Ghar in the 1930s in the core area of Visva-Bharati. The house was named “guha (cave)” because an artificial lake in front the house had a cave-like structure from which water flowed.
