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Rabindranath Tagore was a popular personality who wrote several poems and short stories. He was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for his literary works. He was actively involved in politics and totally supported the Indian nationalists' fight against the British rule.

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MASHI AND OTHER STORIES

MASHI AND OTHER STORIES

The stories in this collection are relatively short, dealing with issues in the everyday lives of ordinary people. In each story a complication arises, and, in just a few pages an outcome emerges which is usually tragic for at least one of the people

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MASHI AND OTHER STORIES

MASHI AND OTHER STORIES

The stories in this collection are relatively short, dealing with issues in the everyday lives of ordinary people. In each story a complication arises, and, in just a few pages an outcome emerges which is usually tragic for at least one of the people

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MY FAIR NEIGHBOUR

22 September 2023
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My feelings towards the young widow who lived in the next house to mine were feelings of worship; at least, that is what I told to my friends and myself. Even my nearest intimate, Nabin, knew nothing

SAVED

22 September 2023
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Gouri was the beautiful, delicately nurtured child of an old and wealthy family. Her husband, Paresh, had recently by his own efforts improved his straitened circumstances. So long as he was poor, Gou

THE CASTAWAY

22 September 2023
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Towards evening the storm was at its height. From the terrific downpour of rain, the crash of thunder, and the repeated flashes of lightning, you might think that a battle of the gods and demons was r

THE RIVER STAIRS

22 September 2023
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If you wish to hear of days gone by, sit on this step of mine, and lend your ears to the murmur of the rippling water. The month of Ashwin (September) was about to begin. The river was in full flood.

THE POSTMASTER

22 September 2023
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The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory near by, and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post

SUBHA

21 September 2023
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When the girl was given the name of Subhashini,[34] who could have guessed that she would prove dumb? Her two elder sisters were Sukeshini[35] and Suhasini,[36] and for the sake of uniformity her fath

THE ELDER SISTER

21 September 2023
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Having described at length the misdeeds of an unfortunate woman's wicked, tyrannical husband, Tara, the woman's neighbour in the village, very shortly declared her verdict: ‘Fire be to such a husband'

THE RIDDLE SOLVED

21 September 2023
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i Krishna Gopal Sircar, zemindar of Jhikrakota, made over his estates to his eldest son, and retired to Kasi, as befits a good Hindu, to spend the evening of his life in religious devotion. All the p

THE TRUST PROPERTY

21 September 2023
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Brindaban Kundu came to his father in a rage and said: ‘I am off this moment.’ ‘Ungrateful wretch!’ sneered the father, Jaganath Kundu. ‘When you have paid me back all that I have spent on your food

RAJA AND RANI

21 September 2023
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Bipin Kisore was born ‘with a golden spoon in his mouth’; hence he knew how to squander money twice as well as how to earn it. The natural result was that he could not live long in the house where he

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