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correspondence who just has to reply to letters the moment he receives them. That obsessive self has all but left me. I have transferred him to Amiya (his quondam secretary). Now-a-days ever so many lion-hunters are treasuring his hand-writing, taking it for my own, thus supplying, in effect, material for the future archaeologist's learned researches! May be some pundit in 3013 A. D.will prove conclusively, in this very Bengal of ours, that Rabi Thakur was a solar myth, the Bengali name of his onewheeled chariot was Amiya, the Rolls-Royce, and that is why Amiya, as Rabi's own car, used to be identified with the former. It will not prove difficult for them to show, from documentary evidence, that in the eastern sky of India Rabi Thakur's position was identical with Amiya Chakravarty's. In one of my future reincarnations I may even come to drive home this thesis against myself with an astonishing erudition and so be honoured, once again, with a doctorate by the Calcutta University to be. I can only hope, wistfully, that this letter I am writing may be suddenly discovered by a rival professor who will duly pounce on and disgrace that Rabindranath to be and, along with him, the Calcutta University which will have conferred the doctorate on him."63
Rabindranath wrote humourous poems on Dilip Roy, too. A few of such poems are given in Six Illuminates of Modern India.
Dilip Roy came into contact with many great people of his time and he often tried to compare and contrast the qualities of one great person with those of another. (Generally he found the great people alike in many respects.) In his essay: 'Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath', as it is noted in the portrait of Sri Aurobindo, Roy brings out the finer qualities of both of them. Dilip Roy thinks that Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath were “the two great lighthouses"64 of their time.
He also cites Rabindranath's Bengali poem, "Varshasneha' along with his own English translation of it and also a few lines from Savitri in Six Iluminates of Modern India to show how close they were in their aspirations and how each of them flowered on earth as a rich treasurer of superhuman dream' in his own way. Dilip Roy was very much impressed by humility of Rabindranath when he found him writing poems and reviews in full appreciation of Sri Aurobindo. In his youth, Rabindranath revered Sri Aurobindo very much when he was sweeping freedom fighters like Tagore off their feet by his speeches and articles. But when Sri Aurobindo left his active political career and retired to Pondicherry in seclusion, Rabindranath regretted it thinking that he had become regardless towards
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