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Selections from Galpaguchchha #2
Manihara and Other Stories
This three-volume English translation by Ratan Kumar Chattopadhyay called Selections from Galpaguchchha is a collection of sixty-one of Tagore’s short stories broadly grouped under the themes of parting of ways, the relationship between men and women, and the power within the woman, respectively.
In Volume 2, we find the ever- popular ‘Ramkanai’s Folly’, ‘The Ghat’s Story’, ‘Woman Bereft of Jewels’, ‘Grandfather’, and ‘The Matronly Boy’, among other stories. The travails of a timid man of indomitable honesty who attains a tragic heroism are narrated in ‘Ramkanai’s Folly’, while the theme of ‘The Ghat’s Story’ is the unstated, forbidden love of a young woman for a hermit who may or may not be her long-lost husband. The frisson in the haunting climax of the ‘Woman Bereft of Jewels’, a horrifying morality tale of egotism and greed, is justly famous.
In Volume 2, we find the ever- popular ‘Ramkanai’s Folly’, ‘The Ghat’s Story’, ‘Woman Bereft of Jewels’, ‘Grandfather’, and ‘The Matronly Boy’, among other stories. The travails of a timid man of indomitable honesty who attains a tragic heroism are narrated in ‘Ramkanai’s Folly’, while the theme of ‘The Ghat’s Story’ is the unstated, forbidden love of a young woman for a hermit who may or may not be her long-lost husband. The frisson in the haunting climax of the ‘Woman Bereft of Jewels’, a horrifying morality tale of egotism and greed, is justly famous.
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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Rabindranath Tagore
2,580 books4,255 followersAwarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.
The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....
Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.
The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....
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April 19, 2020
দারুণ গল্প,
বাঙালি পরিবারে কয়েকশো বছর ধরে চলে আসছে গয়না নিয়ে দন্ধ,যুদ্ধবিগ্রহ।
বর্তমানে বাঙালী মেয়েদের বিবাহের বৈশিষ্ট্য হয়ে উঠেছে বিয়েতে গয়না পরিয়ে রাজকন্যার থেকেও ভাল করে সাজানো।
এই গল্পটি থেকেই অত্যন্ত গয়নালোভী মেয়েরা যেন শিক্ষা নেয় যে, অতিরিক্ত গয়নার লোভ মানুষকে কী পরিনতি ঘটাতে পারে?
বাঙালি পরিবারে কয়েকশো বছর ধরে চলে আসছে গয়না নিয়ে দন্ধ,যুদ্ধবিগ্রহ।
বর্তমানে বাঙালী মেয়েদের বিবাহের বৈশিষ্ট্য হয়ে উঠেছে বিয়েতে গয়না পরিয়ে রাজকন্যার থেকেও ভাল করে সাজানো।
এই গল্পটি থেকেই অত্যন্ত গয়নালোভী মেয়েরা যেন শিক্ষা নেয় যে, অতিরিক্ত গয়নার লোভ মানুষকে কী পরিনতি ঘটাতে পারে?
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