topics: |  fiction-short | bengali

o The Hungry Stones (kShudhita-pAShAN)
o The Victory
o Once There Was A King
o The Home-Coming
o My Lord, The Baby
o The Kingdom of Cards : tAser desh:

	The miracles of "icchhA", (free will?) are introduced into the placid
	rule following kingdom of cards:
		"Why," they asked slowly, "are you not moving according to
	    the Rules?"
		The Three Companions answered: "Because that is our Ichcha
	    (wish)."
		The great Court Cards with hollow, cavernous voices, as if
	    slowly awakening from an age-long dream, said together: "Ich-cha!
	    And pray who is Ich-cha?"

	Clean clear translation, story stands on its own.

		Then they made another startling discovery, that there was
	    another side to the Cards which they had never noticed with
	    attention.

o The Devotee
o Vision
o The Babus of Nayanjore
o Living or Dead?
o "We Crown Thee King"
o The Renunciation
o The Cabuliwallah
many online versions. http://www.online-literature.com/tagore-rabindranath/hungry-stones/