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The King of the Dark Chamber

By Rabindranath Tagore

2019-03-28 19:01:36

You needn't be so awfully put out at that, my man. A country is free to arrange its affairs in its own way. As for roads in our country--well, they are as good as non-existent; narrow and crooked lanes, a labyrinth of ruts and tracks. Our King does n ... Read more
You needn't be so awfully put out at that, my man. A country is free to arrange its affairs in its own way. As for roads in our country--well, they are as good as non-existent; narrow and crooked lanes, a labyrinth of ruts and tracks. Our King does not believe in open thoroughfares; he thinks that streets are just so many openings for his subjects to fly away from his kingdom. It is quite the contrary here; nobody stands in your way, nobody objects to your going elsewhere if you like to; and yet the people are far from deserting this kingdom. With such streets our country would certainly have been depopulated in no time. Less

Book Details

File size68.398 KB
Print pages208
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2019-02-20
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780766182929
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (7 May 1861 – 7 Aug 1941) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill...

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