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Devdas to Teesri Kasam, Bandini to Sujata…. A daughter looks back on the writer’s death anniversary

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Jibanananda Das: The Loneliest Poet of the Twentieth Century In forging a completely personalised poetic diction, Jibanananda Das blazed the trail for modernism in 20th century Indian poetry. Jibanananda Das. Photo: Unknown artist/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain In one of his most celebrated poems, Shakti Chattopadhyay happened to link death to ‘the tram tracks of Rashbehari’. He was thinking of the passing of one of his great literary forebears, the poet Jibanananda Das, whom a speeding tramcar had knocked unconscious on south Kolkata’s Rashbehari Avenue, near the poet’s...

Updated Jan 17, 2021 | 14:43 IST Unidentified persons in Kolkata brutally slit the throat of an elderly woman and smashed his head with a pressure cooker The incident came to light when the man's daughter-in-law noticed that the flat door had been locked from the outside (Representative Image).   |  Photo Credit: iStock Images Key Highlights The man's throat was slit and his head was smashed with a pressure cooker Kolkata: A 73-year-old man was allegedly murdered at his residence in Kolkata by unidentified persons on Friday. The post-mortem report of the m...