The letter is lost due to time, but Rabindranath still wakes up in the torn letter

The beginning of intensive talk

‘That great world lying silent, I love it so much… I want to grasp it with both clean hands.’ The 18th letter of Chhinnapatra is such a deep embrace tone at the beginning. The one who is writing this letter, if you look at the example of his growing up, it can be seen that childhood and adolescence are nurtured in Jorasanko Thakurbari. Chitpur area near Barabazar. Born and brought up in a noble family in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the city. Like Balai, was his soul tied to some original genuine tune? Is that tune constantly pulling him towards a special destiny?— a destiny where man is in close union with nature?

Be special to each other

At the age of twenty-seven, he met the poet and the nature of Bangladesh. He looks so brilliant that words cannot be captured. Both called both that day — ‘He said, this-that! I also said, this-that!’ (Chinnapatra, 22) Then the two are silent in each other — ‘Then both of us are sitting side by side and there is no conversation…..’ (Chinnapatra, 22).

Such was the depth of love, was there any bias built into that depth? Did Kabir seem to be a barrier to the nature of nature compared to people? Eminent writer Anita Agnihotri is clearing that doubt. In his words, ‘writing scraps sitting in close and solitary proximity to nature. So the thought of His nature rings in our ears like a constant melody. The fragmented leaves are the reflection of the complementary form of the sky, water, light and vegetation that the poet saw after spending the day on the Padma boat.’

Letter writing is disappearing day by day. Writing personal letters has almost disappeared except for urgent work. In that context, Rabindra expert Peetam Sengupta said, ‘Indira used to write letters to Devi day after day on various subjects, but the rural nature and the life of the villagers were predominant. Later, courtesy of Indira Devi, all these letters were compiled as ‘Chinnapatra’.’

The statement of the deep kinship of nature with him is scattered in various letters of the scrap paper

Nature and Man – Interdependence

Is nature at all important to the people of the twenty-first century? Anita Agnihotri told about this special feeling of Rabindranath. ‘There are two layers to this feeling. Nature has the power to regenerate itself, if man can overcome his destructive instincts. This nature thinking of Rabindranath has influenced the younger generation of the country and Bengal. Not just fascination, not love, Rabindranath’s gift of the mantra to find oneself back in nature.’

The poet visited London at a young age. As a result, he was introduced to another country and its culture outside of Bengal and India. But still talk with the rest of this silent world. Peetambabu’s words brought up the subject of that intensive viewing. ‘Rabindranath would not have been able to see the different seasons of Bengal the way he saw them in Shilaidhe.’

At the end, it is not necessary to mention some parts of another letter., ‘How beautiful the evening is, how great, how peaceful, how vast, it can only be felt in a daze, but if you want to express it, you have to become agitated…’ (Chinnapatra, 23). As soon as one wants to express this, people become restless, become loud, standing in contrast to it is the vast, lively yet silent nature. It is as if Rabindranath wanted to be born again and again inside that suggestive light of silence. In his own writings exactly as he was born again and again. Perhaps, Shilaidah and Chinnapatrabali are Rabindranath’s reinvention of himself.

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The letter is lost due to time, but Rabindranath still wakes up in the torn letter

The beginning of intensive talk

Be special to each other

Nature and Man – Interdependence

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