last days of tagoreI'm a traveler, a pilgrim. No one can hold or stop me, not the bonds of joys and sorrows, not the room I live in.
অবিভক্ত বঙ্গের খুলনা জেলা সদর থেকে ১৯ কিঃমিঃ দূরে দক্ষিণডিহি গ্রামের এই বাড়িটিই কবির শ্বশুরালয়। বর্তমানে এটি বাঙলাদেশের ফুলতলা উপজেলার অন্তর্ভূক্ত। এখানেই কবিপত্নীর জন্ম এবং শৈশবকাল কাটে। তখন তাঁর নাম ছিল ভবতারিণী। রবীন্দ্রনাথ অবশ্য এ বাড়িতে বরবেশে আসেন নি। তাঁদের বিয়ে হয় কলকাতার জোড়াসাঁকোতেই। বিয়ের পর ভবতারিণীর পরিবর্তিত নাম হয় মৃণালিনী। দেশভাগের পর বাড়িটি জরাজীর্ণ পরিত্যক্ত অবস্থায় পড়ে ছিল। বর্তমান বাঙলাদেশ সরকার বাড়িটির মেরামতি ও সংস্কার করে এই চেহারায় নিয়ে এসেছেন। প্রবেশদ্বারে স্থাপিত হয়েছে মৃণালিনী দেবীর আবক্ষমূর্তি, বাড়িটির একাংশে স্থাপিত হয়েছে মৃণালিনী মঞ্চ। অদূরে আর একটি ভবনে প্রতিষ্ঠিত হয়েছে রবীন্দ্র চর্চা কেন্দ্র। ভবনটিকে বাঙলাদেশে রবীন্দ্র স্মৃতিতীর্থের অন্যতম হিসেবে গণ্য করা হয়।
I was delighted meeting you and your wife some days ago.
Thanks a lot for your help. I bought the 2 first volumes of
"Rabijibani" by Prasantha Kumar Pal.
The books gave so many details about the Jorasanko's Thakur bari and about
Rabindranath's
life that I would have liked to buy all the 9 volumes....Unfortunately, there
was no more place
in our suitcases and bags!!!
Thank you for the tea and the "Chire baja"....
We came back yesterday in Belgium where it is still very cold (2°). The sun
seems to be anaemic!
With my warmest regards,
Philippe Falisse
N.B. By the way, I have been asked to participate in an International
Conference on Tagore
in May. This is organised by the ICWA and it is scheduled for 9,10 May.
Mr. Philippe Falisse one day in March, 2013, came to my place after many correspondence through electronic medium, met us, talked with us in Bengali as he was a learner for three years in Santiniketan, saw my small library and my work shop , is the best gift so far I received in writing SMARAKA GERANTHA.
Rabindranath came to Calcutta from Santiniketan on 17th Sept 1940 being seriously ill. and went to Kalimpong on 19th Sept violating Doctor's advice. He became seriously ill thetre on 26th Sept. Getting the news of his illness Doctors hurried to the spot but could not make him fit. He was again brought to Calcutta on 29th Sept. From 29th sept to 29 th Nov , for two months, he was under treatment. On 29th Nov he again came to Santiniketan. This time he began narrating poems orally which one had to take down.He narrated " Dada haba chila bisham shakh". . 25 th July 1941 he laft Santiniketan for ever and came to calcutta for treatment.
On 30 th July he narrated his last poem "Sesh Lekha" which was taken down by A.K.Sen, brother of first Chief Election Commissioner (Sukumar Sen(1899–1961) was an Indian civil servant who was the firstChief Election Commissioner of India, serving from 21 March 1950 to 19 December 1958.[1]Under his leadership, theElection Commissionsuccessfully administered and oversaw independent India's first two general elections, in1951–52and in1957. He also served as first Chief Election Commissioner inSudan. Sen was the older brother of the more famousAshoke Kumar Sen(1913–1996), Union Law Minister and a noted Indian barrister. Another brother was Amiya Kumar Sen, an eminent doctor, who was the last man to seeRabindranath Tagorealive.), prior to his operation.. He used to tell poems verbally.On the
The Government of Tripura sent a messenger to offer him a title of "Bharat Bhaskar" on 13th May 1941..
Rail coach used by Rabindranath Tagore
২৫ জুলাই ১৯৪১, রবীন্দ্রনাথ শেষবারের মতো শান্তিনিকেতন ছেড়ে চলে গেলেন। ইস্ট ইন্ডিয়ান রেল তাঁর জন্য একটি বিশেষ রেল কোচের ব্.
Tagore's remit expanded to science in his last years, as hinted inVisva-Parichay, 1937 collection of essays. His respect for scientific laws and his exploration of biology, physics, and astronomy informed his poetry, which exhibited extensive naturalism and verisimilitude.He wrote the processof science, the narratives of scientists, into stories inSe(1937),Tin Sangi(1940), andGalpasalpa(1941). His last five years were marked by chronic pain and two long periods of illness. These began when Tagore lost consciousness in late 1937; he remained comatose and near death for a time. This was followed in late 1940 by a similar spell. He never recovered. Poetry from these valetudinary years is among his finest.A period of prolonged agony ended with Tagore's death on 7 August 1941, aged eighty;and 3months he was in an upstairs room of the Jorasanko mansion he was raised in.The date is still mourned.
I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the human's last blessing. Today my sack is empty. I have given completely whatever I had to give. In return if I receive anything—some love, some forgiveness—then I will take it with me when I step on the boat that crosses to the festival of the wordless end. But the operation couldn't make his survive. He died on 7th Aug 1941.At the time of his death he was 80 yrs and 3 months of age.
On
the occasion of the 151th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, we are
publishing, as a mark of tribute, a very rare photograph of his. This
photograph, in fact, is his last photograph and it was taken while he was being
brought to Kolkata from ‘Santiniketan’ in July 1941, that is, a few weeks
before his demise in August 1941.
Gandhiji came to Santiniketan for the last time with his wife, on 6 February, 1940. Gandhiji was greeted in the Amrakunja . Next day he visited Santiniketan. Rabindranath requested Gandhiji to take over the charge of Viswabharati while he was leaving Santiniketan on 19th february, 1940.
Rabindranath inaugurated the Telephone in his office at Santiniketan on 24th July, 1940.
Oxford University awarded Honourary Doctorate degree to Rabindranath Tagore on 7 Aug 1940.
Rabindranath came to Calcutta for treatment on 17th Sept 1940, and was advised to take rest. But he went to Kalimpong on 19th Sept..
He became seriously ill in Kalimpong. Having learnt his illness the Doctors hurriedly went to the spot and he was taken to Calcutta. He remained confined to bed for two months. But wrote a poem "Rogasajhya".
He came to Santiniketan when he used to utter Rhymes (Chara) orally. The eight months he stayed in Santiniketan totally bedridden.He didnot take any nursing from any person so far but now he was under the care of two nurses.
Even in his illness he used to say poetry orally.
