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Sandip Babu arrives to preach Swadeshi in the neighborhood, drawing a big gathering at the temple pavilion. Amidst the triumphant shouts of Bande Mataram, a fervent crowd, including ascetic-clad youths, floods the space, elevating the atmosphere. Within this charged setting, from behind a screen, women, including the observer, watch, enthralled. Despite having reservations about Sandip Babu's features from a photograph, his presence at the event is undeniably commanding, mesmerizing the onlookers with the spirit of nationalism.

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About the Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
THIS was the time when Sandip Babu with his followers came to our neighbourhood to preach Swadeshi.

There is to be a big meeting in our temple pavilion. We women are sitting there, on one side, behind a screen. Triumphant shouts of Bande Mataramcome nearer: and to them I am thrilling through and through. Suddenly a stream of barefooted youths in turbans, clad in ascetic ochre, rushes into the quadrangle, like a silt-reddened freshet into a dry river-bed at the first burst of the rains. The whole place is filled with an immense crowd, through which Sandip Babu is borne, seated in a big chair hoisted on the shoulders of ten or twelve of the youths.

Bande Mataram! Bande Mataram! Bande Mataram! It seems as though the skies would be rent and scattered into a thousand fragments.

I had seen Sandip Babu's photograph before. There was something in his features which I did not quite like. Not that he was bad-looking—far from it: he had a splendidly handsome face. Yet, I know not why,...

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