Visva-Bharati News. October 1950

The choric song lustily sung by the boys and girls who formed part of the procession was punctuated by a Santa] villager with merry blasts of the countrymade horn. [...] Sen held inspite of the recent natural calamities and other factors that tend to disturb the economy viz the influx of a large number of refugees. [...] A whole-day programme of meetings sports and other kinds of entertainment was arranged by the Silpa-Bhavana authorities in celebration of the occasion. [...] A portion of the Asrama playground just in front of the Silpa-Bhavana Building was decorated with a canopy overhead and alpana designs on the ground before the dais and formed the site of the chief function held in the morning. [...] Kavir spoke on various interesting topics including the future of the Bengali language and literature the prospects of Visva-Bharati and the nature and aims of Basic education.