A Feminist Reading of Tagore's Selected Stories ?

Rabindranath Tagore has touched every essence of society through his oceans of literature, whether it's his plays or poems and most importantly his stories. One such angle of his writings is feminism. Female characters are very well portrayed by Tagore in his works through which not only he talks about the contemporary situation of women, their role in the society, their efforts for self-alleviation, but also shows how they proved to be much better than their male counterparts. He reflected the situation of women in all times, like in the time of the Mahabharata to the present times, in all communities, Muslim to Hindu. He showed how woman was treated by her husband, how she fulfilled her duties as a wife, a sister, and a daughter. In all, he beautifully painted the picture of feminism on his canvas of literature.