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The Postmaster: Short Story by Rabindranath Tagore

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The protagonist of The Postmaster is an over-educated, deeply lonely man, who acts as an agent of the British colonial project until he gets fed up and decides to go back to Calcutta to stay with his family. His strange and heartless decision to leave the orphan who he developed a significant bond with in the village speaks about the deep and consuming feeling of alienation.

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