Rabindranath Tagore`s inspiring experiments with depression and loneliness Those who are suffering from this malaise, and they are in large, increasing numbers today due to pressures of life and resort to suicides as an alternative and easy way out .Tagore is a source of inspiration perhaps with his personal battles of this genre including phobia of schooling, biting criticism for Nobel Prize in literature in 1913 and is most relevant in present times
He lost his mother when young and two of his children and constant longing for companionship through relationship with women, His relationship with his sister-in-law, her suicide created a deep impact on him after his marriage,. He was thus given to prolonged boots of depression and loneliness experiences and even contemplated suicide..He acknowledged his own state of mind, as the first step and that the remedy and solution lay within his own psyche. Tagore confronted head on his sickness by churning out great works of literature, music, paintings, constructive, creative engagements , a catharsis and which hobbies he endured till his last breath and thus leaving a rich , enviable legacy to the generations , Besides admitting of the problem, he interacted with close friends , relatives and solicited their help. Thus he came out of self imposed melancholy cocoon, isolation ensconced in a shell of self imposed restrictions and withdrawal Hirmany Saha`s revelations will soon be on stand”Lone poet in the ocean of humanity” Nelson Lopes Chinchinim
