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“No,” Charu said, “thak.” (let it be).
The rueful single Bengali word, thak, on which the novel ends embodies the ultimate incompatibility of the simple India and the rationally constructed Europe in Tagore’s mind. There is much sympathy and tenderness between them, much history, but ultimately, each rejects the other. Each must go its own way, the two paths irreconcilable.
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“If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and...”
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styxandstoned:(via deadendfriends)
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What I woke up to on Days 3 and 4 of my trek
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