Santiniketan became India’s guest house in 1920s, 1930s

H is award of the Nobel Prize for Literature provided Rabindranath with the opportunity to speak to the world through his lectures. He was convinced that his world mission was ‘divinely willed’ and therefore he became enthused to write the lectures directly in English. The lectures were subsequently published as collections of essays with the titles Sadhana: The Realisation of Life (1913), Nationalism (1917), Personality (1917), Creative Unity (1922), Talks in China (1924, 1925) and The Religion of Man (1931). These books are important even now because they represent what Rabindranath sought to communicate to the East and the West for a change in the world’s psychology in order to embrace the new environment of the new age. That change would need a new and alternative educatio