A dry-fruit seller from Kabul, a small girl in Calcutta, and the years that accumulate between them.
(THE FRUITSELLER FROM CABUL)\r \r \r My five years' old daughter Mini cannot live without chattering. I\r really believe that in all her life she has not wasted a minute in\r…
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@rabindranath_tagore
Poet, novelist, painter. First non-European Nobel laureate in Literature (1913). Wrote the national anthems of two nations.
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