This collection combines some of Tagore’s more popular stories like The Cabuliwallah with lesser known ones like The Son of Rashmani, all of them bound together by a common theme-human fallibility. Tagore impartially delineates the mistakes of his charac-ters, their impulsive generosity and even their unthinking cruelty towards their fellow beings. And yet they retain a sincerity which Tagore believed was the essential characteristic of the human spirit. A master of the short story genre, Tagore draws his characters with such accuracy that the reader gains an insight into life as it is.