three short stories written by Tagore which…
“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…
Abstract: The play “Red Oleanders” is first written in Bengali language under the title “RaktaKarabhi”. Tagore conveys the message that the Utilitarian approach and vast industrialization throughout the world would resulting in diminishing human compassion and cause Ecological Imbalance.So he used characters as a metaphor of human instincts such as greed, power, envy, love, trust, and sacrifice. The play Red oleanders is a One-act play which follows the Aristotle’s rules. He fallow’s three…
INTRODUCTION Rabindranath Tagore- poet, short story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter – was born in a rich aristocratic family in Calcutta. He was the son of the religious reformer, Debendranath Tagore. He began to write verses early in life and after his studies in England, he returned to India in the late 1860s. He founded an experimental school in rural West Bengal at Shantiniketan, where he sought to blend the best in the Indian and Western traditions. Years of sadness…
Rabindranath Tagore,recipient of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, is an internationally acclaimed Indian writer who wrote in Bengali.One of the distinctive as well as recurrent aspects of his fiction is his skilful handling of bold,freedom-seeking women characters.In many of his novels and short stories he takes care to show his women adopting unconventional stand to give vent to their feminine voice in a traditional Hindu society,which can undoubtedly be referred to, in Tennyson’s words, as…
see writers discussing it today in order to find ways to improve it. People like Rabindranath Tagore and Richard Feynman bring in their personal experiences about education which show some of the more flawed components of our education system. Tagore claims that nature is a better teacher…
Africa and Flying Man by Rabindranath Tagore show the negative effects of man-made destruction. The destruction is the way they have mistreated the people of Africa, as well as changing the way nature used to be, from the peaceful harmonious nature to inventing more modernised technologies, making man seem more arrogant. The focus of the two poems is how man has destroyed the earth with their actions, and the poet does this by using imagery and figurative language. In Africa, Tagore uses…
When Rabindranath Tagore said, “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,” he established that you can’t accomplish anything without having to do some type of movement and the experience you get from it. When you're at the bottom of Mount Everest and you're imagining yourself getting to the top, you physically have to do the steps to get the experience from it. You’ll never get anywhere in life if you only wait for the outcome instead of living your life. “You can’t…
Raymod Carver’s “So Much Water So Close to Home” and Rabindranath Tagore’s “Punishment” are two stories that talk about death and how the feeling of guilt can take over your mind and create a war inside of your head. Carver’s short story talks about a husband going fishing with his friends, and finding a dead girl, but not reporting it to the police until they finished their trip and got back home. On the other hand, Tagore’s short story is about a brother and husband, Dukhiram, whom kills his…
Rabindranath Tagore explains how people learn at different paces during different time periods in their lives. He states that kids “learn innumerable facts within an amazingly short time” (42). Here he shows that kids have the capacity to simply memorize a lot of facts and retain the information. He then states that as we age and become adults, we become “slower” at learning (42). Through these statements, Rabindranath Tagore conveys that we should establish teaching…