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S2 WHO'S WHO IN INDIA now published in English by him are Gitanjali, the Gardener, the Crescent Moo7i, and the Autography of Maharshi Deven- dranath Tagore. Dr. Rabindranath is of a profoundly.religious temperament. He is very fond of singing which is his chief re- creation though he finds great delight in swimming and rowing also. He is a poet of the people; all his heroes and heroines are drawn from the ordinary people and their simple joys and sorrows are rendered for us in musical language with extra- ordinary insight and depth of emotion. His works again thrill with burning patriotism. Tagore^s Bengali style is admit- ted by all to be unique, full of subtlety of rythm, of untranslate- able delicacies of color, of metrical inventions. Another characteristic of his writings is the mystic element that runs through them — mysticism not in the sense in which Dr. Max Nordau took it but that of a higher type that has always been recognised as a golden gateway leading to the innermost shrine of truth. MOTI Lal Ghose, Babu—the Editor and Proprietor of the " Amrita Bazar Patrika," one of the most influential Indian papers in India, was born in 1847 ^" ^^^ village of Amrita Bazar near Jessore. He and his illustrious brother, the late Babu Shishir Kumar Ghose, published their paper at first in their native village in 1869 as a weekly. It had hardly been in existence for 5 months, however, when an action for criminal lib^l was brought by an English Deputy Magistrate in consequence of some sharp criticism of him in its columns. The brothers, though they came out victorious after a lengthy litigation were, however, left almost penniless. In February, 1872, they brought out their first issue of the Amrita Bazar Patrika" as a metropolitan journal from Calcutta both in English and Vernacular and very soon took the front rank in Indian journalism. It, however, incurred again the serious displeasure of the Government for its unsparing criticism and the result was Lord Lytton's Vernacular Press Act, but it escaped from its grip by a very remarkable feat of journalism which created