 It was here that he got first exposed to anti-British sentiments which shaped his beliefs later in life.On the tenth anniversary of the "mela", Rabindranath Tagore recited a poem attacking the then newly appointed Viceroy Lord Lytton's decision to hold a lavish Durbar in Delhi where Queen Victoria was proclaimed the "Empress of India" all while a famine raged across the country.This was among his first acts of publicly attacking the British Raj.