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                যে ছিল আমার স্বপনচারিণী                      তারে   বুঝিতে পারি নি। Kadambari Devi , the sister-in-law of Rabindranath Tagore, She was nine when she entered the Tagore household as Jyotirindranath's bride-to-be.Rabindranath was seven at the time and admired her. She committed suicide by an overdose of opium. She suffered for two days before her eventual death. On April 21, 1884, she died and left behind a legacy shrouded in mystery and emotional complexity.  Although there are widespread beliefs that she left a suicide note, no official or verified copy of the note has ever been made public. Some sources suggest that the note expressed feelings of deep loneliness, emotional neglect, and inner turmoil, possibly related to her isolated position in the Tagore household and her intellectual frustration as a woman in 19th-century Bengal. The timing of her ...