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    Clouds and Sunshine
    Clouds and Sunshine
    Clouds and Sunshine
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    Clouds and Sunshine

    By Rabindranath Tagore

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    This short life-drama originally penned by Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali begins in an idyllic setting. While the clouds and the sunshine are the two prominent players in the firmament, on the earthly stage below the main players are a little girl named Giribala and the young law graduate, Shasibhusan. 19th century Bengali culture is biased against education of girls and favors child marriage. Giribala's brothers, who go to school refuse to teach her to read and to write. Files of strange tiny black glyphs guard the entrance to a mysterious world, carrying on their shoulders dependent vowel signs and the like pointed all the way up. They never care to answer the questions which Giribala asks. The Garland of Tales refuses to betray its tales of tigers, foxes, horses and donkeys to the curious little girl and The Rachis of Narratives gazes at her in silence with its store of narratives, narrating nothing. But soon the weak-sighted Shasibhusan becomes Giribala's preceptor. It is his labor of love. In two years Giribala learns the English and Bengali alphabets and finishes reading a few elementary books. Then Shasi is kept busy by some legal proceedings and his doleful pupil distances herself from him gradually. Around this time, Giri's family marries her off at the age of ten. Left with practically nothing to do, Shasi decides to leave his village for Calcutta city but gets into trouble en route twice in a row and gives us a fine example of Murphy. Friendless and penniless, a surprise awaits him in the end. This long short story is a faithful translation of arguably the best work in prose by the gray-haired bloke who took the Literature Nobel outside Europe 100 years ago ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA. Datta
    Release dateOct 7, 2012
    ISBN9781301205189
    Clouds and Sunshine
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    Rabindranath Tagore

    Rabindranath Tagore, India's most well-known poet and litterateur and arguably the finest Bengali poet ever, reshaped Bengali literature and music. He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.Gulzar, an acclaimed film-maker, lyricist and author, he is the recipient of a number of Filmfare and National Awards, the Oscar for Best Lyricist and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

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    Clouds and Sunshine - Rabindranath Tagore

    Clouds and Sunshine

    Fiction by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

    Translated by A. Datta

    Copyright © 2012-2016 A. Datta

    Published by A. Datta at Smashwords

    ISBN 978-1-301-20518-9

    Fiction » Classics

    Fiction » Inspirational

    The Buzz on "Clouds and Sunshine"

    Like most other stories and poems of the messiah, this story is a pleasure to read and brings to light profound relationships that develop in this world in the most unexpected situations. The translation is an excellent one, doing great justice to the original piece. The story has remained loyal to the minute details of the original story, Megh O Roudra. ~ The Statesman, Kolkata.

    Datta has excellently conveyed the subtle beauty and the essence of Tagore's original work throughout his translation. He keeps every single mood intact. Every reader of this book, will be able to catch the original magic of Tagore's way of telling a story: his love of nature and human kind, philosophy, faith, experiences and insights into life and relationships. ~ Debadrita, Twice Winner of Bangla Akademi Award.

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    Table of Contents

    Part I

    Part II

    Part III

    Part IV

    Part V

    Part VI

    Part VII

    Part VIII

    Part IX

    Part X

    Clouds and Sunshine

    Part I

    It had rained the day before. It was morning time and the pale sunshine and the fragmentary clouds had been taking turns to paint the near-ripe pre-autumnal paddy fields with their goliath paintbrushes. The spread-out canvas was continually changing colors between a bright yellow hue upon receiving direct sunlight, and a pleasant mellow adumbration upon being smeared with the shadows.

    While no more than these two actors, the clouds and the sunshine were playing out their respective parts within the theater of the sky, countless other dramas were unfolding at countless posts on the earthly stage below.

    There is this house by a village byway where we raise the curtains off the short life-drama to follow. It has only one concrete room, the one next to the byway, and on either

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