Mahalaya : The eternal

Kajal Chatterjee
Contd from previous issue
While travelling in a night train few days after the death of his young son Shamindranath, Tagore noted how the moon continues to shower its beam on the world and how the nature remained absolutely unaffected despite the absence of his son reminding the unfortunate grieving father of the laws of life ie move on and move on. Indeed the Hooghly continues to flow in its full might, the fishermen continuing their search for fish on boats, launch still rendering its service of ferrying people and vehicles from bank to bank, the temple bell continues to toll by the riverside