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 So WHO'S WHO IN INDIA Competitive Examination of selected candidates and joined the Indian Financial Department as a member of the enrolled list and served there with great credit till 1908 in which year he was sent to Bangalore as Comptroller and Financial Secretary to the Government of Mysore for a term of 3 (later on extended to six) years. Here, besides being in charge of Civil, Public Works and Railway accounts and finance he is a member of and Secretary to the Mysore State Life Insurance Committee, Member of and Secretary to the Re- trenchment Committee, Member of the Board of Pleadership and Local Service Examinations, the Government Director of the Banglore Woolen, Cotton and Silk Mills Co., Ltd. In the Mysore State Accounts Department Mr. Chakravarti has been instrumental in the introduction of many a useful reform. Amongst Mr. Chakravarti's scientific and literary productions may be mentioned the series of papers on the "General Cartisian Equation of the second degree " published in Indian Engineering, His paper on the '' wastage of gold in the manufacture of jewellery in Bengal " forms a chapter in the standard work on Hindu Chemistry by Prof. P. C. Roy, Ph. D., C. I. E. His paper on " the Theory of Thunder- ^ storms" won the Elliot Research Prize Essay. In Chakravarti's Sanskrit Poetical works "the Ahnikam " and '' the Uchch- werali " are works of great merit. His Bengali Poetical work the " Lokaloka " and his Bengali drama ** Lakshmi Rani " have been spoken of very highly by eminent critics. The title of Kavyananda was conferred on him after a competi- tive test in Sanskrit verse composition held by the conductors of the Sanskrit Chandrika in 1897. ^^ '^^.s made a Diwan Bahadur by the Government of India in his 39th year in 19 14. Address: Bangalore. Rabindranath Tagore, Dr.— is the son of Maharshi Devendranath Tagore and was born 52 years ago. The Tagore family is one of the most ancient Bengali families. The poet's grandfather Prince Dwarkanath Tagore /visited England