Rabindranath Tagore – Short Stories (Master’s Collections) [Paperback] Rabindranath Tagore

Good
Good

Good
Good

Best Short Stories Collection by Rabindranath Tagore.
This is my first book of Rabindranath Tagore. In childhood, I had heard stories like Kabuliwala, postman and few more, always wanted to read myself. This book has collection of 12 stories. It hardly takes one hour to complete the book. I found this book very engaging and lovely and lively collection of short stories. The stories are conveyed in very simple words. The characters in his stories expresses their emotions in simplest manners possible. That’s the beauty of the stories.One of the Story which touched my heart is “The postmaster”. When he was leaving, he gave his whole month salary to Ratan, the small girl who looked after him till then, she refuses to take that. ” Oh dada, I pray for you, don’t give me anything, don’t in any way trouble about me, “. These words make Postmaster dumbfounded.The beauty of rabindranath Tagore stories is we enjoyed in our childhood and our children too Heartfully enjoy them. I recommend to read these stories And share with kids too.

A great collection of short stories
The eye sees thee not, who art the pupil of every eye…..Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the name itself sounds the rhythm of greatness and the imagination of powerful stories. A great man with a great vision when it comes to literature and artistic approach.The book is a collection of short stories with interesting plots and different flavors of social scenarios. It demonstrates a wide range of creativity and interesting subjects. A few hours into it and you have a great time enjoying some very extraordinary stories under one book.

“Error will not go away; logic and reason are slow to penetrate. We cling with both arms to false hopes, refusing to believe the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart’s blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion again.” With these words Rabindranath Tagore ends his short story, “The Postmaster.” It is the tale of a postmaster in British India who takes in an orphaned village girl to do his housework for which he pays her with food. The thread of this story, like those running through all of Tagore’s tales, is the small quiet spaces of the heart, where no other human can see and which we ourselves may scarcely comprehend.Tagore’s Life Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 in Calcutta, when India was part of the British Empire. He died in Calcutta in 1941. During those 80 years, he produced 90 short stories, books of poetry and numerous paintings. Tagore was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, an honor he received in 1913.Tagore’s Short Stories Reading a short story by Tagore is a journey into life’s trials and complexities. In “Selected Short Stories,” translated from Tagore’s native Bengali by William Radice, 30 Tagore classics show his compassion and humanity for the lowly and forgotten. Tagore’s stories do not philosophize or scold. They remind the reader of the frailty and sadness of much of the human condition: A young woman and her family devastated by the debt of an unpaid dowry; a little boy disgraced for playing with his sister on a social holiday; a house servant who’s life is upended by a freak accident; the skeleton in a medical school that once belonged to a young woman with hopes and dreams of her own; an idealistic young man who dreams of changing the world only to look back on his unfulfilled life and cherish one truly meaningful night; an old man living a life of regret because of a terrible mistake. The tales are not hopeless or morbid. Rather, they remind the reader of our frail natures and of the importance and need for empathy and compassion for our fellow humans. Tagore’s tales do not discuss the grand and famous, but focus on seemingly insignificant people whose hopes and dreams, fears and regrets fill an entire world. His stories ask us to consider how our fellow humans must bear life’s burdens-and to show them kindness as they do. Mesmerizing with his prose, sincere in his humanity, beautiful in his settings, Rabindranath Tagore’s short stories left us an artist’s appeal to understand the yearnings and dreams of the human heart.

Couldn’t get into it.