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Born for a ultra rich family at England, he could have lead a luxury life, but #BarinGhose choose to follow his elder brother #MaharshiAurobindo's path.
His story will ruin your mind.
"The Tale of my Exile" is not a diary or a chronologically organised memoir of the 12 years
His story will ruin your mind.
"The Tale of my Exile" is not a diary or a chronologically organised memoir of the 12 years
that Barin spent in the Cellular jail as a political prisoner. However, his sense of trauma and bewilderment are clearly understood from the very opening lines of the tale that is written in retrospect, recalling in abstract descriptions and comments, the horrendous experience
of living death. So in the first page, Barin Ghosh wrote matter-of-factly about his hazy “memory” — “This faculty seems to have fallen into a moribund condition and can only groan at its best”. Past events can only be recalled as “shadowy and uncanny images, as it were,
