I highly recommend to anyone who has not yet read Tagore to read his short stories. I am not even sure that the one here is the same collection of short stories I read--I read the ones that he wrote in 1898 or so. They are way ahead of their time in some of the insights and ideas, and yet also so...
My life can be split into before and after I read Tagore, and specifically before and after I read "I won't let you go". I can remember the room I was sitting in at university, the shadows across the page, the noises of students outside fading away as the poem pulled me in and held me fast, just ...