title: Collected Stories
author:  Rabindranath Tagore 
description: Rabindranath Tagore (7th May 1861-7th August 1941), the writer and a Nobel laureate poet was the ambassador of Indian culture to the rest of the world. He is probably the most prominent figure in the cultural world of Indian subcontinent and the first Asian person to be awarded with the Nobel in 1913. Even though he is mainly known as a poet, his multifaceted talent showered upon different branches of art-novels, short stories, dramas, articles, essays, painting, etc. He was a social reformer, patriot and above all, a great humanitarian and philosopher.
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  RABINDRANATH
  
  
  
  
  
  TAGORE
  
  
  
  
  
  KABULIWALA
  
  
  
  
  
  Translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha
  
  
  Versilio | The Adaptation Company
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Foreword
  
  
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  NO SECRET
  
  
  The work of some authors is ageless. We read a few lines and immediately find
  ourselves inhabiting the same time and place as the person who wrote them.
  Such artists—who can just as easily be painters, sculptors, or musicians—are
  always with us. We may be unaware of their presence, but they never leave us.
  They are within arm’s reach, wherever we might be. All we have to do to engage
  with them is sit for a moment and read in silence.
  
  
  Tagore’s short tale, written nearly a hundred years ago, remains undiminished
  by the passage of time. The adventure it relates is as relevant today as it
  was then. Nothing has changed.
  
  
  In 1994, I found myself in Dharamsala, in northern India. There, in the
  street, I saw a group of young men who seemed beyond what I had thought to be
  the depth of poverty.