Mahamaya by:Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian polymath who was active as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, educationist and painter during the age of Bengal Renaissance. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.(Wikipedia) Rabindaranth Tagore story "Mahamaya" opens with a plot presenting a dreadful and lonely life of a woman who becomes a widow the day after her wedding. Mahamaya is a beautiful young maiden that comes from a family of Kulin Brahmans, the highest rank of Brahmans. She fell in love with his childhood companion, Rajeev who is a low class Bramo. Their love story is like Romeo and Juliet wherein they were like “me and you against the world” as well as the tragic ending and like Cupid and Psyche at the end of the story because there’s a barrier between them like it was forbidden to see the face of your beloved. The author of the story tells the reader abo...