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"Tagore seemed to be carried inside all Bengalis, regardless of class or social background, like some inheritable disease,silent,unknown, until it manifested itself at the unlikeliest of times. How irredeemably middle-class all this was: The Little Red Book and On Practice on one hand; on the other hand, the poetry of Jibananda Das in his cloth sidebag and a coy, cloying Tagore song almost involuntarily on his lips."