S.S. Chandra (28 January 1920 - 22 April 1986)

S. S. Chandra was born in number 64 Village (Babylon), on the Corentyne Coast, County of Berbice, Guyana, (then British Guiana), South America.  His was a very poor childhood. He lived in a mud hut and he spent most of his days in the rice fields or the kitchen garden helping his mother.  At some point, he realized the value of being educated and since he was too poor to afford his own books, he sought out relatives, friends, and community members who owned books. He became a voracious reader. He spent many nights reading the borrowed books, while in the rice fields, with his homemade 'bottle lamp', in between the shooing away of the birds from eating the rice seedlings. This culminated in his passing his final law exam in December 1958, becoming an attorney (Solicitor of the Supreme Court in the British System).  His life work, however, was not as an attorney, but in the administration of imparting knowledge at Tagore Memorial Secondary School.

S.S. Chandra started with the school at its founding in 1942, as one of two original teachers and retired from it in 1981.  

In the last paragraph of his foreword of the Tagore magazine of 1980, he wrote, "Our school perpetuates the memory of Tagore not because his name and memory needed any recognition from us but rather that we, our school, needed the lustre of his great spirit to encourage us and all mankind to the greater unfoldment of the human spirit. May the great ones of the earth always inspire us to work unceasingly for the peace, freedom and happiness of all mankind."