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The Santiniketan Environment
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As
a child, Rabindranath accompanied his father to Santiniketan and
recalled, much later, in Reminiscences,
Though I was yet a mere child my father did not place any
restriction on my wanderings.
In the hollows of the sandy soil the rain water had ploughed deep furrows,
carving out miniature mountain ranges full of red gravel and pebbles of
various shapes through which ran tiny streams, revealing the geography
of Lilliput…
I was never tired of roaming about among those miniature hills and
dales in hopes of lighting on something never known before.
I was the Livingstone of this undiscovered land which looked as if
seen through the wrong end of a telescope. Everything there,
the dwarfed date palms, the scrubby wild plums and the stunted jambolans,
was in keeping with the miniature mountain ranges, the little rivulet
and the tiny fish I had discovered.