The Cabuliwallah

“I understood then that he was as I am, that he was a father just as I am a father.”

Set in Kolkata at the turn of the 20th century, Kabuliwallah tells of the improbable friendship between a well-to-do young girl, Mini, and a traveling dried fruit seller.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance. He started writing at an early age, and by the turn of the century had become a household name in Bengal as a poet, a songwriter, a playwright, an essayist, a short-story writer, and a novelist. In 1913 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and his verse collection Gitanjali came to be known internationally. His eminence as India's greatest modern poet remains unchallenged to this day.