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The Postmaster

  The Postmaster Rabindranath Tagore https://youtu.be/xj_AqdcPHGM?si=hgolrVzcTx0g6Bzz Rabindranath Tagore was born in Kolkata, Bengal on 7th May 1861. He was popularly known as "Vishwa Kavi" or "the universal poet". He was a multifaceted personality- a great writer, music composer, educationist, playwright, essayist and painter. Some of his notable works are Gitanjali, Gora, Ghare-Bhaire and Amar Sonar Bangla.  He wrote and composed the National Anthems of two countries- India and Bangladesh. He received Nobel Prize for literature in the year 1913 ,  the first Asian and the first non-European to receive the award.      The themes of the story are human emotions, loneliness, and the complexities of human relationships. The story revolves around two characters, a postmaster, and Ratan, an orphan girl. The postmaster, a resident of Calcutta city, was posted at the post office in Ulapur, a remote village in West Bengal. The proprietor of the Indigo factory, an Englishma