The Hungry Stones and Other Stories

"The Hungry Stones and Other Stories" is a compilation of thirteen heart-warming and poetic short stories written by the renowned author Rabindranath Tagore. 'Hungry stones' revolves around a tax collector, Srijut and his experience at the haunted palace while the story of 'The Kabuliwallah', which has been adapted into a number of movies, focuses on an uncanny father-daughter relationship between a little girl and an Afghan trader in rural Bengal. This book stores a casket of experiences and pleasing tales for all the readers to explore !Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a renowned poet, musician, polymath, Ayurveda-researcher and an artist who recast music, Bengali literature and Indian art in the late 19th and early 20th century. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, revolutionary and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1913. Rabindranath Tagore was alsoreferred to as 'the Bard of Bengal'. His compositions "Jana Gana Mana" and "Amar Sonar Bangla" were embraced by two nations as their national anthems respectively.