A collection of short stories, She gives us a glimpse of some of the women inRabindranath Tagore's writing. Through these stories we also come to know thesocial conditions in which women were placed, almost always the victims, andmore interestingly, responding differently yet with the same dignity, how eachhandled the pressure associated with it. Tagore saw in the women of his country an immense wealth - theircourage against all odds, their power of survival under the worst possibleconditions and oppression, their forbearance, their self-sacrifice andgentleness. It pained him to see such colossal waste of so much human treasure.The stories in this collection bring out these qualities in full measure.
