Lady ranu mukherjee biography
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A tribute interested Ranu, The Last Lady
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Ranu Mukherjee (art patron)
Indian art patron ( – )
Lady Ranu Mukherjee (born as Priti Adhikary) ( – ) was a notable patron of the arts and one of the most famous personalities in the sphere of Indian arts and culture. She became Rabindranath Tagore's muse during the last years of his life, and is credited with establishing the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, and was honored with the Légion d'Honneur by the Government of France.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]Born as Priti Adhikary, Ranu Mukherjee's ancestral home was in Tungi village in the Nadia district of British Bengal. She was born on the 18th of October, in Varanasi[3] in Uttar Pradesh.
Relationship with Tagore
[edit]Aged 11, Ranu had finished reading Tagore's Collection of Short Stories (Golpoguccha). She was then a student of the Theosophical School at Kashi. It was in that Tagore invited Ranu's father to come and work with Kshitimohan Sen at Shantiniketan's Vidya Bhavana. Her elder sister, Asha Aryanayakam, and her husband had been the inmates of the Shantiniketan Ashrama for a long time. Having read Tagore's works, such as Gora, Noukadubi, Chinnapatra, and Dakghar, Ranu shifted here. She was tutored by the artists Nandalal Bose and Surendranath Kar while stayin
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7 Harrington Street, Calcutta
The famous address at Harrington Street (presently Ho Chi Minh Sarani) of a manor house, a three storied ochre coloured building with a portico, set in the midst of a fairly large open space, its eastern side bordering Camac Street – yes, that was the mansion built for himself in by the foremost Bengali entrepreneur, Sir Rajendranath Mookerjee.
Sir R.N., in brief, - after whom the Mission Row had been renamed following his demise on May 15, - had this grand edifice constructed by his own firm, Martin & Co., when he along with his partner Sir Thomas Acquin Martin reached a sufficient stage of success and prosperity in their business venture of constructing water works across the country, building important offices, memorials, mosques and even laying narrow gauge train lines known as “Martin Rail “ in a bid to connect the city with the countryside.
Born on June 23, in a non- descript village called Bhabla in the Basirhat sub-division of a lawyer father who died when the boy was only six, Rajendranath was brought up by his mother in a joint family. A kind but resolute lady that she was, no pain was spared to educate the boy in the best possible manner in English education recently introduced.
How that rustic lad, by dint