poetry better than her husband yet she was unable to express her inner feelings, experience and knowledge. She developed inferiority complex and said, “People praise them falsely only because a woman had written them”.4 In“Punishment”Dukhiram Rui and Chhidam Rui, the two brothers were hard working poor farmers. It was the rainy season .One day it rained heavily and Zamidar’s room began to leak so they were called him to repair it. They worked very hard without eating even they were not given their wages. After finishing work in the evening when they came home Dukhiram asked his wife Radha for meal but it was not ready because there were no grains. She cried “should I earn money?”On hearing this without thinking he hit her head with a chopper.
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The problem of caste system as racism can be traced in his short story “The Laboratory”. Nandkishore, an intelligent and brilliant engineer got a project of constructing buildings and he worked very hard to accomplish them. Suddenly he had to go on a business trip to Punjab where he found a beautiful girl, Sohini. When both interacted with each other Sohini was impressed. So observing his diligence and brilliance she fell in love with him and proposed him for marriage but he turned down her proposal because of not being same caste “He was not in favour of inter- caste marriages.”5 Similarly in “Once There Was a King” Tagore also shows the social inequality of caste in Indian society. A King had only a daughter but no son so he had gone away to the forest for a particular reason. But having passed many years when he did not come back the queen ordered her men to bring the king back from forest to the palace. The king was brought to his palace by the men. During dinner seeing a beautiful girl he was greatly surprised to know that she was his young daughter. When the queen broached the idea of her marriage he was worried it. After days when he came out of the palace in the search of a boy for her daughter he found a Brahmin boy, younger than the girl. Despite the difference of age he decided to marry her daughter with the Brahmin boy but in the society there
The problem of caste system as racism can be traced in his short story “The Laboratory”. Nandkishore, an intelligent and brilliant engineer got a project of constructing buildings and he worked very hard to accomplish them. Suddenly he had to go on a business trip to Punjab where he found a beautiful girl, Sohini. When both interacted with each other Sohini was impressed. So observing his diligence and brilliance she fell in love with him and proposed him for marriage but he turned down her proposal because of not being same caste “He was not in favour of inter- caste marriages.”5 Similarly in “Once There Was a King” Tagore also shows the social inequality of caste in Indian society. A King had only a daughter but no son so he had gone away to the forest for a particular reason. But having passed many years when he did not come back the queen ordered her men to bring the king back from forest to the palace. The king was brought to his palace by the men. During dinner seeing a beautiful girl he was greatly surprised to know that she was his young daughter. When the queen broached the idea of her marriage he was worried it. After days when he came out of the palace in the search of a boy for her daughter he found a Brahmin boy, younger than the girl. Despite the difference of age he decided to marry her daughter with the Brahmin boy but in the society there