1907
full moon day in the month of Ashvina, when winter is beginning to cool the branches, Valmiki is born
Dada: That year Ravi Varma died and my father, on the same day Garuda Purana way to the Lord. Phalke would have known it as a brahman? first part of purana- conversation of Garuda with Vishnu
and you were born Babaraya
Sarasvatibai:
an insect in the soft light of the waters of my womb, you had been lying there transfixed for so long, you plunged into that light and carried it out with you
Mandakini: He had the moon around his head like the gods?
Bhalachandra born, Dada's first child.
Friday, 28th June, the king's birthday.
TOI report about child labour in factories.
Sister Nivedita writes of Ravi Varma's pictures
"not every scene is for a picture... In a country in which that posture is held to be ill-bred, every home contains a picture of a fat woman lying full length on the floor and writing a letter on a lotus leaf! As if a sight that would outrage decorum in actuality could be beautiful in imagination! In a country in which romantic emotion is never allowed to show itself in public, pictures of the wooing of Arjuna and Subhadra abound" in "The Function of Art in Shaping Nationality", Modern Review, January February 1907
The All-India Muslim League is formed in Dacca by a group of big landlords including the Aga Khan, the Nawab of Dacca and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk, supporting the Partition of Bengal and calling for seperate Muslim electorates and other safeguards for Muslims.
Ramananda Chattopadhyaya starts The Modern Review in Allahabad, discussing modernism in Indian Art. It later published Tagore's debate with Gandhi about culture.
J.F. Madan opens the Elphinstone Picture Palace in Calcutta, the first of his cinematic chain. Pathe establishes an Indian office.
[1] Gauhar Jaan on the shel lac disc of the time
