The Parrot'S Training And Other Stories
Tagore, Rabindranath . Rupa Publications India . English
The Parrot's Training (Tota-Kahini) is one of Tagore's finest satires criticising the contemporary education system. Other stories include The Trial of the Horse, Old Man's Ghost, Great News. The book was published posthumously in 1944.
Categories: Rabindra Rachanavali
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.
