SUBHA – Subhashini

SUBHA is a translation of Rabindranath Tagore's short story 'Subhashini' written in 1892. Read on to know more... When the girl was given the name of Subhashini[1], who could have guessed that she would prove mute? Her two elder sisters were Sukeshini[2] and Suhasini[3], and for the sake of uniformity her father named his youngest girl Subhashini. She was called Subha for short. Her two elder sisters had been married with the usual cost and difficulty, and now the youngest daughter lay like a silent weight upon the heart of her parents. All the world seemed to think that,...