Selected Short Stories

'The poem I had planned to write on the banks of the Ganga was never written. But it materialized in my life.'

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Nobel laureate and polymath, is one of the most eminent Indian writers of world literature. This volume presents new English translations of twenty of his short stories. Taking in a wide variety of registers (comedies, tragedies, the mundane and the fantastical), the selection showcases Tagore as one of the earliest practitioners of the short story g...