Nirmal was a teacher of English literature at Asutosh College in Calcutta where he had made a name for himself as a leftist intellectual and promising writer. ... Kanai had been to Lusibari in 1970, sent by his parents to be rusticated for his audacity, arrogance and misbehavior with teachers. ... A poet at heart, who constantly invoked Rilke's Duino Elegies and sought confirmation of his ideas and thoughts in the lines of the German poet, Nirmal approached retirement from service, feeling like his life was poorly spent because he had never lived up to his revolutionary ideals. ...

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