The creative genius of Rabindranath was almost universal in expression and temper. Literature, music, arts and thoughts, activities, education or the cooperatives, etc., all were touched and turned into gold. Yet the same genius was rooted in our very soil again. India of the ages spoke through him, he was the finest exponent of Vedic lore of composite culture of Hindus, of the universal message of the medieval saints like Kabir, Nanak, etc., right up to Rammohan ...