Kalinath Roy had passed away at the house we visited yesterday! Yes, at that Beadon Street house.. this was discovered by Anjoli as she was carefully studying (which we should all have done earlier) the newspaper reports published in The Tribune the day after Kalinath's death! This explains why the condolence note written by Gandhiji was addressed to 33/2 Beadon Street, as that is where Kalinath breathed his last ! (so my earlier post that Kalinath "may have spent last years of his life in the house" stand corrected.. we do not know whether he always used to visit and stay in that house, but when he left from Lahore in the beginning of December 1945, he was already sick.. which might have been the reason why he did not go all the way to Khulna, stopping at the house where his elder son lived and his daughter-in-laws' father lived and his grandsons lived)
As I was narrating yesterday's incidents to Baba this afternoon, he confirmed that the name that we found on the stone plate at 33/2 Beadon Street i.e. Bholanath Dhaam was what the house was named back then as well.. As I said, it could have been named later, Baba shook is head and confirmed (at all my later questions) that the name has always been Bholanath Dhaam!
I dont know how my Facebok posts (my English is POOR compared to Anjoli's) found their places in Anjoli's beautiful blog post! Happy, humbled.. sending out a big thank you hug to Anjoli Roy ! Never did once the 7-page-long post look long.. I read it in one breath as I was re-living every moment of yesterday and every thing that we learned! And to think that that huge iron gate that we opened last afternoon was the last gate Kalinath Ray had opened as he entered that house on December 3rd, 1945 just 6 days before he passed away suffering from broncho-pneumonia in that house only.. that house that we visited yesterday WAS the house where he breathed his last!
As I was narrating yesterday's incidents to Baba this afternoon, he confirmed that the name that we found on the stone plate at 33/2 Beadon Street i.e. Bholanath Dhaam was what the house was named back then as well.. As I said, it could have been named later, Baba shook is head and confirmed (at all my later questions) that the name has always been Bholanath Dhaam!
I dont know how my Facebok posts (my English is POOR compared to Anjoli's) found their places in Anjoli's beautiful blog post! Happy, humbled.. sending out a big thank you hug to Anjoli Roy ! Never did once the 7-page-long post look long.. I read it in one breath as I was re-living every moment of yesterday and every thing that we learned! And to think that that huge iron gate that we opened last afternoon was the last gate Kalinath Ray had opened as he entered that house on December 3rd, 1945 just 6 days before he passed away suffering from broncho-pneumonia in that house only.. that house that we visited yesterday WAS the house where he breathed his last!
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