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"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.
Tagore was inspired to write this story after he had stayed in Shah Jahan's Moti Shahi Mahal palace Shahibaug, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, situated near the Sabarmati River (in the story this became the Shusta River). This was where Tagore's elder brother, Satyendranath, was serving as a judge at the time.[1]
Adaptations
editThe story has been adapted a number of times as listed below:
- Kshudhita Pashan by Tapan Sinha, 1960 Bengali film
- Lekin... by Gulzar, 1991 Hindi film
Other ghost stories by Tagore
editTagore wrote several other ghost stories, including The Skeleton, Lost Jewels, In the Middle of the Night, and False Hope.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Datta, Rama; Seely, Clinton (2009). Celebrating Tagore : a collection of essays. Allied Publishers. p. 3. ISBN 9788184244243. OCLC 623263320.
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