Tagore is regarded as one of the pioneers in creating a relationship with China. In cooperation with great personalities such as Tan Yun- Shan, he established the Institute for Sino-Indian Studies (Cheena Bhavana) in Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. Click here to read a fascinating book published to celebrate the centenary of Tan Yun-Shan. Amongst many interesting letters and correspondence between Yun-Shan, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Tagore, you will also find Tagore’s address at the opening ceremony of Visva-Bharati Cheena-Bhavana on April 14, 1937. This is how it begins:
The most memorable fact of human history is that of a path-opening, not for the clearing of a passage for machines or machine guns, but for helping the realisation by races of their affinity of minds, their mutual obligation of a common humanity
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