A cotton-tax collector, a marble palace, and the ghost of a life that was beautiful.
My kinsman and myself were returning to Calcutta from our Puja trip when\r we met the man in a train. From his dress and bearing we took him at\r first for an up-country…
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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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