About The Book
This book is an English translation of some of the best short stories by Tagore. The stories are The kabuliwala, The Home-coming, Once there was a king, The child’s return, Master Masai, Subha, The postmaster and many more.
My Thoughts
To be honest, I haven’t read this book, but I have read it, well how come? The answer is, I have read all the stories in Bengali, many many times.
Short Stories by Tagore is a gold mine. A short-length story doesn’t qualify to be a short story. The main theme of any short story is it should give you an ocean in a drop. And, Tagore is a master of writing short stories.
My all-time favourite short stories are The Drought [Mahesh] by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay and The Home-coming (Chuti) by Rabindranath Tagore.
Let’s talk about Home-coming (Chuti). This story is about a child longing for his home, his mother who sort of rejected him, and his village.
There is a paragraph in the book which described the struggles of a teenager. It was written around 1892 and is still relevant today, in 2021. That is the brilliance of Tagore.
Not reading this book is probably a crime.
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About the Author
Rabindranath Tagore was a Nobel Laureate for Literature (1913) as well as one of India’s greatest poets and the composer of independent India’s national anthem, as well as that of Bangladesh. He wrote successfully in all literary genres, but was first and foremost a poet, publishing more than 50 volumes of poetry. He was a Bengali writer who was born in Calcutta and later traveled around the world. He was knighted in 1915, but gave up his knighthood after the massacre of demonstrators in India in 1919.
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