Aparna Chaudhuri
Rabindranath Tagore wrote He (Shey) to satisfy his nine-year-old granddaughter's incessant demands for stories. Even as Tagore began to create his grand fantasy, he planned a story that had no end, and to keep the tales spinning he employed the help of 'Shey' (He), a 'man constituted entirely of words' and rather talented at concocting tall tales. So we enter the delightful world of Shey's extraordinary adventures. In it we encounter a bizarre cast of characters ...