About the Book: My Boyhood Days
My Boyhood Days (Chhelebela, 1940) is Tagore's second memoir of his childhood
days, written when he was nearing eighty. He describes, without a trace of
self-pity, the spartan life he had to lead under his father's instruction. The
sense of wonder and delight in the seemingly commonplace experiences of boyhood
helped him become a great poet.
A lonely boy, he was curiously sensitive to both joy and mystery, finding a
sense of wonder in the seemingly commonplace experiences of boyhood that would,
perhaps, lead him to become one of the greatest poets the world has ever seen.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Rabindranath