In “ Rules of Cooperative”( 1928 ) : “ Socialization is the
heart of village. Socialization can never be achieved in a town. One reason for
this is that, as town is large social relation becomes weak. Another reason is
that because of business and other special needs and opportunities population
becomes large. There humans primarily want to satisfy its own essential needs.
Not each other. Due to this even when people are living in the same locality
they do not feel ashamed if they do not know each other. With the complication
of our life this alienation is gradually growing “
( Remember T. S. Eliot: “
The desert is not only in the Southern tropics/ The desert is around the
corner/ The desert is squeezed in the tube train? And the desert is in the
heart of your neighbour”)
Tagore in a meeting
of villagers in Santiniketan in 1930: “ It is necessary to tell you a fact.
Many of you will not be able to feel how true is the fact. I never could
imagine that I shall witness so much of distress from different countries in
the west. They are not in happiness. There is no doubt that huge loads of goods
have been accumulated. But there is deep untrust all around. .... People can
never remain connected to each other in cities. You don’t have to go far-in
Calcutta, where we stay and the place we know, there is no relation with the
neighbours in their happiness and sadness or during some mishappening. “
In Rules of
Cooperative Tagore writes ( 1928 ): “ The villages encircle the cities from all
sides. Such unnatural dissimilarities can never be good ......It is necessary
to state that this is not true only for our country. This is the common symptom
of the present age. In reality, this seed of social alienation from West has
spread all over the world. This not only harms the happiness & peace of
mankind,it is killing from inside. So, this problem has to be considered by the
people of all countries. “
In Cooperative on
self- reliance ( 1922 ): “ We have to reconstruct all our villages to satisfy
all our needs. It is necessary to form a Zone. If the heads of the Zones can
organize all works and redress the deficiencies by themselves only then only
the cultivation of self-rule will become true all over the country. It is
necessary to help & inspire the villagers to start their own school,
cooperative & bank. By this way if the villages become self-reliant &
united then omly we will be saved. Our greatest problem is how to reconstruct
our village society. “
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