![]() ![]() "Sometimes I would pass many months absolutely alone without speaking, till my own voice grew thin and weak through lack of use," Prof Bhattacharya quotes Tagore as having written to his friend once. I saw my father seldom: he was away a great deal.I was kept in the charge of the servants of the household after my mother died".Įven as a young man he spent a great deal of his life in solitude as he had to supervise the rich Tagore family estates in north Bengal, and stay on his boat on the river by the sand-flats for months together with no other companion than servants and boatmen. ![]() In a letter to his confidant Charles Freer Andrews, the bard says, "I was very lonely that was the chief feature of my childhood I was very lonely. According to the author, Tagore was always chased by loneliness ever since his childhood as reflected in his memoirs 'Jiban Smriti' and 'Chhele Bela'. Published by Penguin India, the biography portrays him as a man who was deeply sceptical, self-critical and struggled handling the turmoil and conflicts in his 'inner life'. ![]()
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