THE POSTMASTER – Postmaster

THE POSTMASTER is a translation of Rabindranath Tagore's short story 'Postmaster' written in 1891. Read on to know more... The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory nearby, and the proprietor, an Englishman, had managed to get a post office established. Our postmaster belonged to Calcutta. He felt like a fish out of water in this remote village. His office and living room were in a dark thatched shed, not far from a green, slimy pond, surrounded on all sides by a dense...