Though Rabindranath Tagore’s literary genius shines best in his poetry, his short stories come as a close second and are world-class in their artistry and craftsmanship. Tagore, the father of Bengali sort stories, set such a high standard that it has rarely been surpassed since. The principal driving force of his literary work was not his love for God but his humanism. The stories in this book present one aspect of this humanism-drawn in soft earth colours and they look real and familiar and last long in our mind. The characters shine like stars and do not blind the eye. The fourteen stories in this selection give Tagore’s reflections on child-marriage, the dowry system, growing gulf between city and country, bigoted orthodoxy of caste system and even wife burning. The story, Wife’s Letter, is a scathing indictment of the status of women in a man’s world, an issue that would take center stage decades later even in the most industrialized liberal democracies in the world. The women come from all socio-economic background, from the rural landless labour class to the urban affluent class. The translations are easy to read, maintain the heightened description of feelings, rich description of nature, overall vitality and flow of the original.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jadu Saha
Dr. Jadu Saha, after his retirement from the Canadian Civil Service as a Director General began his literary career in 2001. His poems in English have been published in American anthologies and his short stories in Bengali in magazines in the US. His first poetry book, Whispers of Silence was published in Canada in 2001 and his other translated books include Songs of Rabindranath Tagore, The Flute: Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore’s Images of Women: Selected Poems, Rabindranath Tagore’s Portrait of Women: Selected Short Stories (Shipra Publications, Delhi).
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Rabindranath Tagore: Portraits of Women
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1st ed.
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8175411821
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184p., Glossary; 23cm.
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