Description

This is one of Rabindranath Tagore’s most remarkable novels. Originally published in Bengali (Chokher Bali) in 1902, it has the distinction of being the first truly modern novel of India. Tagore wrote several other novels which are better known. But in no other novel of his is he a better story teller. In no other novel has he watched the human drama with such gentle and calm irony. In no other novel has he accepted the kinship between love and sex with such frank sympathy-the white lotus of love rooted in the slime of desire. Of all women characters created by Tagore in his many novels, Binodini is the most real, convincing and full-blooded.