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Swami Trigunatitananda

To spread the message of Sri Ramakrishna in Bengali, Swamiji asked Trigunatita to start the magazine that he had thought of in 1896. Swamiji contributed one thousand rupees that Josephine MacLeod had given him; Haramohan Mittra donated another thousand. These contributions enabled Trigunatita to buy a press and inaugurate the publication of Udbodhan. Trigunatita rented a couple of rooms at Combuliatola Lane, Calcutta, for the magazine, labouring on this pioneering job alone, without any previous experience. His main assets were his sincerity, patience, perseverance, and above all, his love for the ideal. As he had no monastic assistants at first, Trigunatita was the editor, proofreader, manager, and supervisor of the press; and when the typesetters were sick, he had to compose the type also.