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TAGORE, RABINDRANATH


The Parrot's Training

Translated by the author from its original Bengali


Calcutta and Simla, Thacker & Spink & Co., 1918

Rare first English edition

This story is Tagore's famous satire on the futility of education through rote-learning from books - "parrot-fashion" - then prevalent in India.


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