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    The Post Office
    The Post Office
    The Post Office
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    The Post Office

    By Rabindranath Tagore

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    Amal stands in Madhav's courtyard and talks to passers-by, and asks in particular about the places they go. The construction of a new post office nearby prompts the imaginative Amal to fantasize about receiving a letter from the King or being his postman. The village headman mocks Amal, and pretends the illiterate child has received a letter from the king promising that his royal physician will come to attend him. The physician really does come, with a herald to announce the imminent arrival of the king; Amal, however, dies as Sudha comes to bring him flowers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGAEditori
    Release dateJun 5, 2020
    ISBN9788835842637
    The Post Office
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    Rabindranath Tagore

    Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was an Indian poet, composer, philosopher, and painter from Bengal. Born to a prominent Brahmo Samaj family, Tagore was raised mostly by servants following his mother’s untimely death. His father, a leading philosopher and reformer, hosted countless artists and intellectuals at the family mansion in Calcutta, introducing his children to poets, philosophers, and musicians from a young age. Tagore avoided conventional education, instead reading voraciously and studying astronomy, science, Sanskrit, and classical Indian poetry. As a teenager, he began publishing poems and short stories in Bengali and Maithili. Following his father’s wish for him to become a barrister, Tagore read law for a brief period at University College London, where he soon turned to studying the works of Shakespeare and Thomas Browne. In 1883, Tagore returned to India to marry and manage his ancestral estates. During this time, Tagore published his Manasi (1890) poems and met the folk poet Gagan Harkara, with whom he would work to compose popular songs. In 1901, having written countless poems, plays, and short stories, Tagore founded an ashram, but his work as a spiritual leader was tragically disrupted by the deaths of his wife and two of their children, followed by his father’s death in 1905. In 1913, Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first lyricist and non-European to be awarded the distinction. Over the next several decades, Tagore wrote his influential novel The Home and the World (1916), toured dozens of countries, and advocated on behalf of Dalits and other oppressed peoples.

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      The Post Office - Rabindranath Tagore

      Physician.

      The Post Office

      GAEditori

      www.gaeditori.it

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

      MADHAV

      AMAL, his adopted child

      SUDHA, a little flower girl

      THE DOCTOR

      DAIRYMAN

      WATCHMAN

      GAFFER

      VILLAGE HEADMAN, a bully

      KING'S HERALD

      ROYAL PHYSICIAN

      THE POST OFFICE

      ACT I

      [ Madhav's House ]

      Madhav.

      What a state I am in! Before he came, nothing mattered; I felt so free. But now that he has come, goodness knows from where, my heart is filled with his dear self, and my home will be no home to me when he leaves. Doctor, do you think he—

      Physician. If there's life in his fate, then he will live long. But what the medical scriptures say, it seems—

      Madhav.

      Great heavens, what?

      Physician. The scriptures have it: Bile or palsey, cold or gout spring all alike.

      Madhav.

      Oh, get along, don't fling your scriptures at me; you only make me more anxious; tell me what I can do.

      Physician [ Taking snuff ] The patient needs the most scrupulous care.

      Madhav.

      That's true; but tell me how.

      Physician. I have already mentioned, on no account must he be let out of doors.

      Madhav

      Poor child, it is very hard to keep him indoors all day long.

      Physician. What else can you do? The autumn sun and the damp are both very bad for the little fellow—for the scriptures have it:

      "In wheezing, swoon or in nervous fret,

      In jaundice or leaden eyes—"

      Madhav.

      Never mind the scriptures, please. Eh, then we must shut the poor thing up. Is there no other method?

      Physician. None at all: for, In the wind and in the sun—

      Madhav.

      What will your in this and in that do for me now? Why don't you let them alone and come straight to the point? What's to be done then? Your system is very, very hard for the poor boy; and he is so quiet too with all his pain and sickness. It tears my heart to see him wince, as he takes your medicine.

      Physician. effect. That's why the sage Chyabana observes: In medicine as in good advices, the least palatable ones are the truest. Ah, well! I must be trotting now. [ Exit ]

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