death_date birth_date article_title name occupation
1950 1878 dwijendranath maitra
 dwijendranath maitra doctor
dwijendranath maitra

dwijendranath maitra -lrb- also spelt dijendra nath moitra or shortened as dwijen maitra or dwijen moitra -rrb- -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 1878 -- 1950 -rrb- was son of lokenath maitra , who hailed from rajshahi , now in bangladesh .
lokenath maitra had married jagattarini in an inter-caste widow remarriage , a daring task in those days .
in 1902 , he stood first in the m.b. -lrb- bachelor of medicine -rrb- examination from medical college and was the first indian to be appointed house surgeon in mayo hospital .
in 1912 , he went to england and america to get himself acquainted with the latest developments in medicine and surgery .
there he met rabindranath tagore .
he discussed about the poet with others .
without mentioning his name , w. b. yeats starts the introduction to the gitanjali as follows : a few days ago i said to a distinguished doctor of medicine , `` i know no german , yet if a translation of german poet had moved me , i would go the british museum and find books in english that would tell something about his life , and of the history of his thought .
but though these prose translations from rabindranath tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years , i shall not know anything of his life , and of the movements of thought that have made them possible , if some indian traveller will not tell me . ''
it seemed natural to him that i should be moved , for he said , `` i read rabindranath everyday , to read one line of him is to forget all the troubles of the world . ''
he travelled to the usa with rabindranath tagore .
he was a member of sukumar ray 's monday club , which had such noted personalities as satyendranath dutta , suniti kumar chaterjee , atul prasad sen , kalidas nag , prasanta chandra mahalanobis and prabhat kumar mukhopadhyay as members .
in 1915 , he established the bengal social service league .
it was initially named bangiya hitasadhan mandali .
possibly the oldest secular social welfare organisation , rabindranath tagore was president of this organisation for many years .
jnananjan niyogi served as its secretary .
amongst others involved in it was nishi kanta bose , a renowned social worker .
he was a pioneer in the use of audio-visual methods for the education of adults .
for the training of workers engaged in the field of social welfare , he opened the school of popular education in 1924 .
he set up the fellowship club for the enhancement of communal harmony .
in 1930 , he visited the soviet union to gain first hand experience about community development programmes undertaken in that country .
he visited china and japan in 1934 .
he established srinanda , in 1944 , for the education of adult women .
cultural fellowship with foreign countries is another organisation he set up .
many of his speeches were published in the form of booklets .
his son , satyen maitra , is a well-known educationist and social worker .
