It was eerily prescient: Kolkata girl and Fergusson College student Anindyee Dhar had asked for the definition of death in the last college
lecture she attended on Friday, barely 24 hours before she became one of the nine victims of terror in Pune on Saturday.
The 19-year-old Anindyee had asked for the true interpretation of death during a poetry class, her teacher recounted to TOI on Sunday. Anindyee died along with her IIT-passout brother, Ankik, and three friends at German Bakery on Saturday evening.
‘‘She seemed to have some kind of premonition. She spoke about death at length during the class that day. I was numbed when I came to know about her death the next day,’’ her English teacher at college, Prasanna Deshpande, said on Sunday.
‘‘We were reading some lines from Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and that triggered a discussion on life and death,’’ Deshpande recalled. ‘‘She was stuck on one of the lines: ‘Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here. To watch his woods fill up with snow’,’’ Deshpande said.
‘‘I talked about the symbolism of the snow and the woods in the poem. Alluding to the lines, I tried to tell the class how the woods represented life and the snow symbolised death. It was then that she asked how anything covered with snow could still look beautiful; she explained that she wanted to know how life could be beautiful despite the fact that it was going to end in death. So I told her that life was beautiful because of the very fact that it’s going to end one day. She looked satisfied and noted down the interpretation in her book,’’ Deshpande reminisced about his student.
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Defining-life-death-Anindyee-sought-answers-a-day-before/articleshow/5574546.cms
lecture she attended on Friday, barely 24 hours before she became one of the nine victims of terror in Pune on Saturday.
The 19-year-old Anindyee had asked for the true interpretation of death during a poetry class, her teacher recounted to TOI on Sunday. Anindyee died along with her IIT-passout brother, Ankik, and three friends at German Bakery on Saturday evening.
‘‘She seemed to have some kind of premonition. She spoke about death at length during the class that day. I was numbed when I came to know about her death the next day,’’ her English teacher at college, Prasanna Deshpande, said on Sunday.
‘‘We were reading some lines from Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and that triggered a discussion on life and death,’’ Deshpande recalled. ‘‘She was stuck on one of the lines: ‘Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here. To watch his woods fill up with snow’,’’ Deshpande said.
‘‘I talked about the symbolism of the snow and the woods in the poem. Alluding to the lines, I tried to tell the class how the woods represented life and the snow symbolised death. It was then that she asked how anything covered with snow could still look beautiful; she explained that she wanted to know how life could be beautiful despite the fact that it was going to end in death. So I told her that life was beautiful because of the very fact that it’s going to end one day. She looked satisfied and noted down the interpretation in her book,’’ Deshpande reminisced about his student.
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Defining-life-death-Anindyee-sought-answers-a-day-before/articleshow/5574546.cms
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