Amitabh Bachchan is quite active on social media and constantly shares his thoughts and health updates to his fans.
Amitabh Bachchan on Sunday night shared a video reciting his father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s poem. The video begins with Big B seen sitting with a book in his hands. After 30 seconds, his voiceover, reciting the poem, plays in the background. The title of the poem is Hai Andheri Raat Par Diva Jalana Kab Mana Hai.
Along with the video, Amitabh Bachchan wrote, “Babuji ki kavita ke kuch pal. Vo is tarah gaaya karte the kavi sammelan mein. Hospital ke akelepan mei unki bohot yaad aati hai aur unhi ke shabdon se apni sooni raaton ko aabaad karta hoon. (Some moments of my father’s poem. This is how he used to sing in Poet’s Conferences. I miss him in the loneliness of the hospital and fill my empty nights with his words).”
In his blog on Saturday, Amitabh Bachchan said coronavirus takes a toll on the mental health of the patient as one is kept away from other humans.
He also pointed out the stigma of having tested COVID-19 positive is something which a patient may wrestle with once the institutional isolation is over.
“Does it have an effect psychologically mentally? Psychologists say it does. Patients after release are tempered, they are given to consultation with professional mind talkers.
“They are afraid to be in public for fear or apprehension of being treated differently, treated as one that has carried the disease, a pariah syndrome. Driving them into deeper depression and in the loneliness that they have just come out of,” Amitabh Bachchan wrote.
