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A Light That Fades: Kadambari Devi and Rabindranath Tagore’s Unspoken Love
”A Light That Fades” provides a fictionalized account of the close, if unconventional, relationship between Kadambari Devi and her husband’s brother Rabindranath Tagore. The action unfolds in the grand premises of Jorasanko Thakur Bari where Kadambari harbors an unconfessed reverence for the budding poet. With Rabindranath looking forward to starting a new chapter in his life with marriage, isolation increases for Kadambari. Shared moments of joys and poetry with him, become her protective armor of affection but also pain. In the last act of love for him, Kadambari presents Rabindranath with her own written thoughts, artificially redefining her role in the history that was to come, and Bridhima gracefully retires…