The Hungry Stones

"The Hungry Stones"
Short story by Rabindranath Tagore
The first page of "The Hungry Stones" as it appeared in The Modern Review in 1910.
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Original titleKshudhita Pashan
Khudito Pashan
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
Publication
Publication date1895

"The Hungry Stones" (Bengali: Kshudhita Pashan or Khudito Pashan) is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1895. The story is about a tax collector, who is sent to a small town and stays at a former palace which is believed to be haunted. Every night, he becomes more consumed by the spirits of the inhabitants of the palace from the Mughal times and a beautiful Indian woman.

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