Saturday, May 28, 2011

Renuka (contd-3)

Renuka was gradually becoming seriously ill. Her condition was narrated by Rabindranath to Mohit Chandra Sen.
She was continuing her fever for some days. At the same time she had cough.She did not improve at Bolpur. Rabindranath was in search of a house to take her for change of weather, preferably in the areas of Santal Pargana, Chotonagpur. Rathi had gone to Calcutta for sitting in the examination. Rabindranath was planning to go to some healthy place with Renuka.
Rabindranath went to Hazaribagh with a full team. Along with him accompanied  Aunt Rajlakshmi Devi, brother-in-law Nagendranath Roychoudhury and his wife Nalini Bala, Renuka, Mira and Shamindra.
They took their shelter in the garden house of Kalikrishna  Thakur. Amal Sengupta wrote that the house of Kalikrishna Babu was near  the main post office. This time the people of Hazaribagh who loved literature assembled round Rabindranath and the learned persons became passionate at the presence of Tagore. They met together  to discuss about literature. Girindra Gupta was a local man. In his house they arranged sitting for songs and recitation. They went to Hazaribagh in a narrow gauge train from Madhupur to Giridi and then travelled a long distance with a push car to reach Hazaribagh. A few days ago Rabindranath came to this place with Indira Devi, Surendranath and Akshay Chandra. The journey to Hazaribagh was very difficult as it is now. The condition of Renuka had improved a little. Here there was an M.D. lady Doctor who after thorough examination said that Renuka was not having any problem in her lungs. But suggested to go to Almorah , a better place for change.    
Renuka, the second daughter of Rabindranath, was married at the age of 10 and a half.. After  marriage her husband went to England and returned back unsuccessfully when the second marriage of Renuka took place.
After few days Renuka had her second marriage.Renuka had shown to be attacked with fever and cough. At first Rabindranath experimented with Homeopath. Indira Devi wrote that after the diagonosis of the disease of Renuka she was  taken to Madhupur by Maharaja of Natore. Due to the nursing of Amala Das and change of weather Renuka improved a lot.  Amala Das had some exchanges of letters with Indira Devi. But Jagadish Chandra prescribed alternative treatment for Renuka. He wrote that he was going to send a machine to generate Ozone and gave instruction how to use it. He also gave some instruction of breathing to inhel maximum amount of ozone. He also explained it by giving a drawing to it for clarification.