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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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