"An Institution Is The Lengthened Shadow Of...

"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."

EMERSON

But Santiniketan is an imperishable shadow of Rabindranath, the unique. "Santiniketan is India." This high tribute was paid to Tagore not by an insignificant human being, but by the Father of the Nation, Gandhi-ji. And our first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, went to the length of saying that "he who has not visited Santiniketan has not seen India."

America's most illumined philosopher-thinker, RALPH WALDO EMERSON, justifies biography as an invaluable asset to humanity's forward march:

"There is properly no history, only biography."