Dip into the magic of timeless fiction with eight of the best known and much loved short stories by Rabindranath Tagore. Eight stories like, Bolai, Kabuliwallah, Holiday, The Notebook and more are sensitively crafted and superbly narrated, the stories in this collection explore the many strands of human emotions and experiences — joys and sorrows, friendships and alienations, arrivals and departures, realities and fantasies and everything in between.
Once there was a king and other stories, is retold for young readers by Aniruddha Mukherjee and Mamta Nainy.
About the author
Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861. An author and painter, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At 16, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhânusimha (Sun Lion). By 1877, he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. An exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Publication: Mango Books
Price: Rs. 195
