In 1976 Jyotirmoyee at last found a shelter where she could spend the last years of her life peacefully. It was the Cheshire’s Home at Tollygunje, Calcutta whose in-charge was Nirmal Chandra Ghose. There she was looked after well. In 1981 when Sunanda Barua went to meet her with her husband, she found that Jyotirmoyee, who had become semi-blind, was getting adequate care and affection from the people of Cheshire’s Home. That was the last time the relatives of Jyotitmoyee saw her alive. Some months later on 14 November 1981, Jyotirmoyee breathed her last. At last the soul was freed from the body which suffered infinitely. For her, death was not the dark, unknown world; it was the medium of liberation—MUKTI!
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