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Jibanananda Das: The Loneliest Poet of the Twentieth Century In forging a completely personalised poetic diction, Jibanananda Das blazed the trail for modernism in 20th century Indian poetry. Jibanananda Das. Photo: Unknown artist/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain In one of his most celebrated poems, Shakti Chattopadhyay happened to link death to ‘the tram tracks of Rashbehari’. He was thinking of the passing of one of his great literary forebears, the poet Jibanananda Das, whom a speeding tramcar had knocked unconscious on south Kolkata’s Rashbehari Avenue, near the poet’s home, in the evening of October 17, 1954. Jibanananda succumbed to his injuries a few days later. It was, of course, a freak accident, but not everybody believed it was. Indeed, not a few in Kolkata and elsewhere were convinced that it was death by suicide. Here was a poet who, while he had lived, had looked distant and inscrutable to many of his countrymen. In his death, he seemed scarcely l

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