পাতা:রক্তকরবী - রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর.pdf/৫৯৪

(? br8 come to the last scene of the last act of his latest play and that, having lived for so long on such intimate terms with the characters of his invention, he could not bear to bring the play to a sudden end or say to these people his final farewell. “I have delayed the guillotine for one more day,” he would say, “but fall it must.” When this work was finally published as Rakta Karabi (or Red Oleanders), I found to my surprise that it was dedicated to myself. The present translation into English does not do, it is said, full justice to the quality of the original.” (Rabindranath Tagore : A Centenary Volume 18611961, Sahitya Akademi, Reprinted 1986, p. 17) Rabindranath Tagore : A Biography (1980) *ibG এলমহাস্টের আরও কিছু স্মৃতিচারণের উল্লেখ করেছেন কৃষ্ণ কৃপালানি । তার অংশবিশেষ এখানে উদ্ধৃত হল : “Twelve months later Tagore enlarged to me upon the ideas he had tried to incorporate in the play, but he also hinted that it was originally the human relationship between himself and myself and W. that had given him the embryonic idea on which his imagination had set to work.” (p. 321) “They tell me,” said Tagore, “that my recent poems have something of the old fire in them and that my latest play is of a decent vintage?” “We all agree,” came the response, “but tell us what was the source of your inspiration?” “Why, of course, it is W.,” laughed Tagore, “she not only showers affection upon me but she gives me inspiration. She even begged of me that this new drama should he dedicated to her. I told her, Never, you have had nothing to do with it. But she knew, and I know, that she is the figure around whom the whole theme revolves....” (p. 323) বস্তুত, এই w" বা শ্রীমতী রাণু অধিকারীই (এখন লেডী মুখোপাধ্যায়) যে নন্দিনীর মতো একটি মানবীর ছবি আঁকার জন্য রবীন্দ্রনাথকে অনুপ্রাণিত করেছিলেন, তাতে কোনো সন্দেহ নেই। এ বিষয়ে প্রয়াত কবি অমিয় চক্রবর্তী নু ইয়র্ক থেকে ৫ মে ১৯৮০ তারিখের একটি চিঠিতে আমাকে লিখেছিলেন— ‘রক্তকরবীর নায়িকা— আমার মনে হয়— শ্রীমতী রাণু অধিকারী (এখন লেভী মুখাজী) দ্বারা অনুপ্রাণিত।