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"'''Hungry Stones'''" ({{lang-bn|Kshudhita Pashan or Khudito Pashan}}) is a [[Bengali literature|Bengali]] short story written by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] in 1895. | "'''Hungry Stones'''" ({{lang-bn|Kshudhita Pashan or Khudito Pashan}}) is a [[Bengali literature|Bengali]] short story written by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] in 1895. | ||
The story is about a tax collector, who is sent to a small town and stays at a former palace which is believed to be haunted. Every night, he becomes more consumed by the spirits of the inhabitants of the palace from the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal times]] and a beautiful | The story is about a tax collector, who is sent to a small town and stays at a former palace which is believed to be haunted. Every night, he becomes more consumed by the spirits of the inhabitants of the palace from the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal times]] and a beautiful Indian woman. | ||
Tagore was inspired to write this story after he had stayed in [[Shah Jahan]]'s [[Moti Shahi Mahal]] palace [[Shahibaug]], [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], situated near the [[Sabarmati River]] (in the story this became the Shusta River). This was where Tagore's elder brother, [[Satyendranath Tagore|Satyendranath]], was serving as a judge at the time.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mXJKSul32ZsC|title=Celebrating Tagore : a collection of essays|last=Datta |first=Rama|last2=Seely|first2=Clinton|date=2009|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=9788184244243|oclc=623263320|pages=3}}</ref> | Tagore was inspired to write this story after he had stayed in [[Shah Jahan]]'s [[Moti Shahi Mahal]] palace [[Shahibaug]], [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], situated near the [[Sabarmati River]] (in the story this became the Shusta River). This was where Tagore's elder brother, [[Satyendranath Tagore|Satyendranath]], was serving as a judge at the time.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mXJKSul32ZsC|title=Celebrating Tagore : a collection of essays|last=Datta |first=Rama|last2=Seely|first2=Clinton|date=2009|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=9788184244243|oclc=623263320|pages=3}}</ref> | ||