Kabuliwala Paperback – 1 December 2017
Ravindranath Tagore . Rajpal & Sons (Rajpal Publishing) . English
The iconic short story by Rabindranath Tagore about an Afghan dry-fruit seller and his?ove for a little girl that he 'adopts' as his daughter, has caught the fancy of readers worldwide. It is counted amongst the all-time greatest children books of India. The story of Kabuliwala has been adapted many times for the television and movies screen in the past and two movies based on this story have been extremely popular in the last 50 years.
Categories: Short Stories (Fiction)
About the Author
Rabindranath Tagore was a Nobel Laureate for Literature (1913) as well as one of India’s greatest poets and the composer of independent India’s national anthem, as well as that of Bangladesh. He wrote successfully in all literary genres, but was first and foremost a poet, publishing more than 50 volumes of poetry. He was a Bengali writer who was born in Calcutta and later traveled around the world. He was knighted in 1915, but gave up his knighthood after the massacre of demonstrators in India in 1919.
