Indian Literature: Tagore, the Kural, and the wisdom of India

The literature of the subcontinent — Tagore’s Nobel-winning verse, the Tamil Kural, and the great spiritual and poetic traditions of India.

In this collection

• The Devotee
• My Reminiscences
• Eschewing of Faults
• The Spirit of Japan
• In Praise of the Dream-State
• Offspring
• Respectability of Birth
• The Cabuliwallah
• Abjuring of Flesh-Meat
• Renunciation
• Love
• The Councillor of State
• Raja and Rani
• The Wasting of the Eyes through Wistful Longing
• Bewailing the Pallor of Pining Love
• Fortresses
• Non-Injuring
• Just Government
• The Country
• False Friendship
• Reading of the Heart by Signs
• The Impatience of the Pair to Fly to each other's Arms
• Considerateness
• The Postmaster
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