Author Description

A Man Trained As A Physicist, With Interests In Wireless Communication And The Behaviour Of Metals, Goes On To Provide Evidence Of Plants Being 'living' Things In The First Years Of The Twentieth Century. At Around The Same Time, Rabindranath Tagore, The Scientist's Close Friend, Whose Poems And Songs Record A New Poetic Nomenclature Of Plant Life, Sets Up, First, A School, And, Soon After, A University Where Trees And The Seasons Are At The Heart Of The Cosmogony. In That University Are Artists - And Art Teachers - Whose Manner Of Teaching Art, Drawing The Human Anatomy, For Instance, References The Analogous Behaviour Of Plant Life. In The Decade When The University Comes Into Being, A Young Man Who's Studied In Calcutta, Unable To Find Employment In The City, Leaves For The Forests In The Neighbouring State Of Bihar. There, As He Supervises The Cutting Down Of Forests For Agriculture, He Records Forest Living In His Diaries And In His Autobiographical Novel. Another Young Man Moves From Barisal To Calcutta, First For An Education, Then To Seek Employment - He Finds And Loses Jobs--