Amrut Panthacha Yatri By Dinkar Joshi

रवीन्द्रनाथ ठाकूर, विश्वकवी. नोबेल पारितोषिक मिळवणारे पहिले भारतीय. आपल्या राष्ट्रगीताचे रचनाकर्ते! हा आहे त्यांचा शब्दबद्ध केलेला जीवनप्रवास. भरलेल्या घरात लहानपणापासून एकटे पडलेले रवीन्द्र आपल्या कवितांमध्येच रमणारे, कवितांसाठी प्रेरणा देणाया भाभीराणींमुळे मिळालेली उभारी आणि त्यांच्या जाण्यामुळे परत निर्माण झालेली पोकळी, वडिलांच्या आज्ञेखातर पण मनाविरूद्ध बघितलेले जहागिरीचे काम, त्यातूूनच येत गेलेली आजूबाजूच्या समाजाची जाण त्यांना घडवत गेली. रवीन्द्रनाथांच्या संपूर्ण आयुष्यावरच मृत्युचे मोठे सावट राहिले आहे. एकामागून एक प्रियजनांचा चिरवियोग त्यांना अजूनच एकटे करत गेला. शांतिनिकेतन शाळा, तिच्यासाठी करावी लागणारी धडपड; वेगवेगळ्या कलांची आवड, त्या निमित्ताने देशोदेशीच्या लोकांशी भेटी. संपर्क, नोबेल पुरस्कार, त्यामुळे मिळणारे मानसन्मान अशा वाटांवर त्यांचे आयुष्य चालत राहिले. अमृत पंथाचा हा यात्री मात्र एकला चालो रे म्हणत चालत राहिला... We all are very well familiar with the great poet and the Nobel Prize winner, Ravindranath Tagore; the writer of our National Anthem. This book is based on his life. Ravindranath had a very sensitive mind since his childhood. He had to face many a deaths since his childhood. This included his mother, brothers, brotherinlaw, sisterinlaw and so many others. This had made him introvert. He had realized that death was not a foe but it was like a friend, a true one, who relieves one of all the pains and sorrows forever and takes to a universe full of joy and content, away from the distress faced on earth. His poetic mind absorbed the beauty, serenity and the calmness that death held. Since his childhood, he preferred to be aloof. This allowed him to pen down his thoughts into words and then lines. As he wanted to hide his identity, initially, he wrote in the name of Bhanu Singh. It was his sisterinlaw who was his inspiration. Her untimely death was a blow for him. Her death and the work that he had to do was what made him much more mature. His life was not that of a common man. He had a dream in his mind and he strove hard to achieve it, to fulfill it. He established Shanti Niketan School, a noble attempt, first of its type. He was a lover of the various forms of Arts. He himself was a master of many of these Arts. This gave him an opportunity to meet a variety of people, in land and in foreign countries as well. He was the first Indian to be felicitated by the Noble Prize, many such felicitations followed. Yet, all his life, he found himself to be very lonely, he preferred it that way………