Palanquin, a spot for Imagination of Rabindranath

"The chalk line has been wiped away today, but the confining ring is still there. The distance is just as distant, the outside is still beyond me...." 

 In the time of Dwarakanath, grand father of Rabindranath, palanquins were in use. He had a big palanquin which required eight bearers to carry each pole. The bearers, their gold bracelets, their thick earrings and their sleeveless red tunics had gone with the wealth and glory of  Prince Dwarakanath. The body of the palanquin sans the decorations was left in a corner of the accounting-house as a piece of common-place lumber. 

It was to him an island  in the midst of the ocean, and he,on holidays, became Robinson Crusoe. He sat within its closed doors, completely out of sight, delightfully safe from prying eyes'.