“The Hungry Stone” is a short story written by Rabindranath Tagore Which is a translation of the Bengali version “Khudhito Pashan” that was published in his book of short stories “Galpoguchcha”. Rabinndranath(1867-1941) and his many-sided achievements are incredible. He is a writer, a great thinker,an artist,a great musician and an orator of extraordinary power. With his god-gifted genius his leviathan bulk of writing and his universal appeal make him global. He got Nobel Prize for his book “Gitanjali” on 1913. His short story “The Hungry Stone” has the grandeur of supernaturalism with the most vibrant shades of romance. The story is about the uncanny experiences of a man who was a cotton-tax collector at Barich. While living in an ancient pleasure-dome of a sultan he witnessed the supernatural. The forgotten age came to haunt him with magnum opacity of the palace and the mourning of the Persian damsel. The unthinkable experience dragged him into insanity and the unearthly incident dangled him into the space of fact and metaphysical attributes. The atmospheric predominance in the story and the plethora of the incomparable poetic imagery discard the crudity and grotesqueness of a conventional ghost story. It is the credit of Rabindranath who lures the tax collector as well as the readers to saunter into the world of surreal uncertainity.
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It is a tale with the bold and bright introspection of spectral mysteries that is very much credible to the readers of for its supernatural rapture. Defining supernatural, Coleridge’s comment, “willing suspension of disbelief” is very much applicable here for its magnetic
It is a tale with the bold and bright introspection of spectral mysteries that is very much credible to the readers of for its supernatural rapture. Defining supernatural, Coleridge’s comment, “willing suspension of disbelief” is very much applicable here for its magnetic