AuthorRabindranath Tagore1861–1941Noukadubi is a Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore, published in 1906. It first appeared in Bangadarshan, a Bengali literary magazine that Tagore himself edited at the time.
The work brings together a large cast of characters, among them Ramesh, Hemnalini, Kamala, Nalinaksha, Annadababu, Yogendra, Akshay, Umesh, Chakravarti and Shailaja, whose relationships shape the plot.
The novel enjoyed considerable later success: it has been adapted for the screen many times, in Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, with versions ranging from 1946 to 2011.
Themes
Relationships between charactersLove and desireFilm adaptationsBengali society in the early twentieth century
Other works by Rabindranath Tagore
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