Short stories.

Originally posted by: epiphany.

I gd remember their titles, all right but every short story I have ever read is by Rabindranath Tagore. It's earthy, the way the man wrote, use of complex words that soothe you is everywhere. Try.

Originally posted by: LoveToLaugh

You are the probably the first person I am coming across in this forum who has read Tagore. I LOVE his stories. His "Kabuliwalah" is one of my very favorite stories. He had spectacular insight into the human mind. But then we are talking about a nobel laureate. The English translation of his Gitanjali was deemed good enough to be given the Nobel Prize.

My only regret is that I haven't read his stories in their original Bengali. But I am getting there. I am going to start with his stories again. This time in Bengali. :)

Originally posted by: epiphany.

Bengali seems like a language worth learning. But English sums up to be all my life, there ain't no substitute to English. And for that matter, Hindi/Punjabi when I feel funny.

Bengali is my mother tongue. But growing up outside West Bengal meant that I never got the chance to read and write my own language. I recently taught myself how to read and write in Bengali. So that I could revisit all my favorite stories.

But I get that point about there being no substitute to English. English is as much my own language as Hindi and Bengali are.

Kabuliwala however, I have read both in Hindi and in English. They teach it at school to kids who don't understand the beauty of it until they're so much older. Tagore knew his people well, like the Indians. His knowledge of people and then his knowledge of words make everything I have read from him highly admirable.

I never came across the Hindi version. But I am not surprised. It is one of Tagore's most popular stories. I agree. Tagore knew his people well.

If you ever get the chance, read Nastha Nir (The Broken Nest in English). It is just a very beautiful and an almost breathtakingly romantic story.

Originally posted by: bookworm-ALS--

The Gift of the Magi by O.Henry. What I loved most in the story was the way two ordinary people could hold such extraordinary love for each other. ❤️

Originally posted by: LoveToLaugh

I'll definitely read it. Thanks! :)

Originally posted by: epiphany.

This one was in my sixth grade English textbook too. 😆 The teacher told us the protagonists were siblings. 😆