1. The Postmaster
Selected Stories
Rabindranath Tagore

2. Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)
1874 : first published poem , Abhilaash(Desire)
1913 : Noble Prize in Literature for Gitanjali
1915 : knighted by the ruling British Government
first drama-opera : Valmiki Pratibha (The Genius of Valmiki)
1921 : established Viswabharati University
Music : Rabindrasangit , a collection of 2230 songs
also involved in art, theatre ,politics
Author

3. Collection of 30 short stories translated by
William Radice
The Living and the Dead
The Postmaster
A Single Night
Kabuliwallah
………………………………………..and many more
Contents

4.  Rich with tradition, culture and literature
 Stirred different emotions; love, pain, deception, humanity, loss, yearn, all being
portrayed beautifully in one or the other story
 Raw Indian-ness depicting several walks of life and their trivialities is seen throughout
 Focus is always the human nature
 Reflects the contemporary life in rural and urban Bengal ,people, customs, social
structure, turmoil, and relationships of the times in which they were written
 There is not a single happy story in the book, which makes Tagore seem like so much of
.
a pessimist
Not being an absolute literary expert or critic, all I can say is, it was an absolute treat
going through the pages of this collection
Review

5. Thank
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