August 1945 Thakur who was then in Feni lamented "Alas! Alas! What a destruction!" . A few hours later an atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima , (Source : 'Sri Sri Thakurer Sange', a Bengali article by Tulsidas Gangopadhyay ). On the afternoon of January 30, 1948, hours before Gandhiji's assassination, Thakur