year celebrating hundred fiftieth birth anniversary rabindranath tagore america organizations busy preparing celebrations year york jersey cultural association bengal joining hands multiple organizations hold multiple events york jersey maryland amidst excitement myriad minded genius perspective perspective expatriate bengali specifically bengali american bengali american imply national significance bengali speaking person living america subject year called research fascinated knowing great deal history expatriate indians america relationship tagore tagore special relationship america visited times lifetime spent highest number days india england visits happened crucial junctures life history world india developed kind fondness america americans brought sorely disappointed previous visit true trips america raise funds school university shantinekatan trips made informed potential outcome objective article intend details trips relationships bengali americans highlight feelings america positive quoting interviews statements letters tagore introduction america twelve years father maharshi debendranath tagore read autobiography benjamin franklin maharshi debendranath thought instructive entertaining book young rabindranath discovered benjamin franklin business-like person tagore wrote autobiography reminiscences narrowness calculated morality disgusted father book gave glimpse america fought freedom british championed freedom fundamental human youth tagore studied american poets love emerson works finds india told american journalist felt whitman's poems deeply imbibed eastern ideas feelings forty-four playing major role nationalist agitation partition bengal chose send rathindranath tagore america higher studies sending england customary rich parents india days rathindranath returned india wife pratima devi father rabindranath tagore back america england handing english translations geetanjali poems publication history happen rabindranath's initial reaction america pleasant early pronounce opinion country america unripe fruit proper flavor sharp acid taste moved westward york illinois wrote country flat open great attraction reminding scenery spent peaceful time urbana illinois news arrival spread spend hours lecturing venues usual sense humor wrote american people unhealthy appetite sugar candy lectures subject afraid spotted stalked visit rabindranath tagore american people orient nobel prize literature poems plays biographies circulation trip great raging europe tagore extremely critical western nations america primary reason criticism felt america appeal humanity hold chance heard beautiful country great future america unhampered free experiment progress humanity make mistakes series mistakes higher synthesis truth hold banner civilization exponent western ideals humanity high hopes america york america figure youth western civilization eventually find lodgment criticisms make friends america press lashed occasions knew harsh place judging harshly felt bring message east happiness america thought country meeting place east west trip successful tagore high president woodrow wilson wanted dedicate book nationalism president wilson president wilson's office declined offer advice william wiseman britain's special liaison agent united states reported tagore tangled indian revolutionaries america conspiring germany overthrow british rule india rabindranath falsely implicated famous hindu german conspiracy trial tagore upset immediately telegram president wilson protesting allegation wrote wilson letter stated received great kindness hands countrymen entertain great admiration afraid incurring charge anachronism introducing idealism domain politics people make avowal faith assure countrymen hospitality bestowed ready accept wallowing sub-soil sewerage treason president wilson's office replied letter tagore's trip disappointment tagore craze post america renunciation knighthood looked favorably strong ally british tagore advised make trip warned financial expectations time made trip high hopes expected message received thirst find america wonderful hunger aspiration hunger genuine reaction pursuit wealth characterized industrial life occasions extremely critical americans failure raise funds university frustration tagore suffering health problems depression period andrews writes gradually health improved stay america brighter wrote cheerfully tagore wrote texas coming texas felt sudden coming spring life breach castle winter revelation days soul thirsting draught sunshine poured beaker infinite space embraced warmth caress thrills tagore's visit america primarily incident place immigration office vancouver canada enter country tagore waiting immigration office unconscionable period time handled rude insulting manner interview things appears nobel laureate poet asked read write outraged resentful cancelled lecture engagements left country stay angeles twenty days calmed considerably laws regulations represent spirit people great people received kindness eastern states overrun kindness people listened respect received message sincerely hurt time tagore trip back russia time reception cold previous trips suffered minor heart attack health prolonged period managed make important engagements including meeting president hoover white house lectures attended time great depression america fund raising successful expected donated entire proceedings farewell event held broadway theatre december relief fund york city's unemployed gesture typical person life call attention india's millions bidding farewell america's millions thought helping time rabindranath tagore criticized american's criticizes brother lost faith america believed america uphold humanity barbarism western nationalism ultimate hope trust america expressed telegram president franklin roosevelt june fire world raging europe today stand fearfully destructive force suddenly swept world moment deplore smallness means feebleness voice india utterly inadequate stem tide evil menaced permanence civilization individual political problems merged today supreme world politics seeking united states refuge spiritual lines mine convey hope unnecessary united states fail mission stand universal disaster appears imminent months tagore's death eighty united states threw weight destroyed axis powers references tagore america dees rabindranath tagore america stephen passage america sujit mukherjee tagore panchanan saha article previously published anandasambad jersey 