"Tagore was a born story-teller, for whom the children of all the ages, since words were first created, have always clamoured. He was never one of them, but his seat was in their midst. Every story he has written in verse or prose shines like a gem. He never unfolded the tales with lengthy preambles like a garrulous grandfather, but plunged right into the plot and gripped the attention with the first sentence, which is how all stories should be told." - Lila Majumdar