Rabindranath had heard about Kshiti Mohan from one of his distinguished colleagues, Kali Mohan Ghosh, who was already in Santiniketan, mainly to help Tagore with his work on village reform and rural reconstruction, in addition to contributing to education at Santiniketan School. What Tagore heard about Kshiti Mohan impressed him sufficiently to undertake a kind of a background check. He found out about my grandfather’s scholarship as well as his liberal inclinations and deep involvement with the poorest people in the society, and became adamant that Kshiti Mohan must be persuaded to come to
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