 “I saw before me the adolescent of 1876 in the full orb of youth. How beautiful and serene a stature, glowing with genius. The long face shining and fair like the lotus bud about to bloom; and the curly hair parted and dressed in the middle; the brow, like a golden mirror, set in the midst of curly hair; the face, set off by the beard and moustache dark as a bee; a pair of polished golden spectacles on his sharply nose. The gold frame and the complexion vied with each other. Looking at him you are reminded of the portrait of Christ. He was wearing a white dhoti, and a chadar or tunic. On his feet were sift sandals, suggestive of the intolerable hardness of Western footwear."
(Poet Nabinchandra Sen describes the young Tagore at thirty)
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