Have been reading this ,time and again the thought comes to my mind ,can anyone else even think of such an wonderful story.Cannot forget the innocence of the child when Tagore says when the child asks her father questions like:
"What do you think, Father? Bhola says there is an elephant in the clouds, blowing water out of his trunk, and that is why it rains!"
Wow i miss this innocence friends and i know you also do.We have lost it over time.We see life in a different perspective .
The patience with which the Kabuliwaala listens to the child which amazes Tagore himself.I wonder have we lost that patience in today's lifestyle.We might have lost it.
The bond between the child and Kabuliwaala is so amazing that the child waits and longs for him when he goes once in a year to his home country.What is the relation here.There is something for all of us to learn here.If not at least for me .
Again at the end Tagore makes all of us cry with an end where Kabuliwaala returns after many years to
see the child(now a bride -on her wedding day) and Kabuliwaala has brought her some fruits and asks the bride "Little one, are you going to your father-in-law's house?" is a sequence where Tagore is at his best .
Then when Tagore says:
But Mini(child) now understood the meaning of the word "father-in-law," and she could not reply to him as of old. She flushed up at the question, and stood before him with her bride-like face turned down.
We come to know that child that Kabuliwaala was looking was long gone.
Kabuliwaala is an amazing journey ,a simple story but with lot of emotions .
Thanks to Tagore we at least can read of the Child like innocence now and experience the same in his stories.
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