Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, dramatist, song writer and painter. He was the first non-European to win the Noble Prize in Literature. Most of Tagore’s prose and poetry has been translated into English and other languages. His writing include over 200 lyrical poems and songs.
Rabindranath Tagore in the story ‘Kabuliwallah’ showed the theme revolves around human relationships, between father and daughter means between the Kabuliwallah and Mini. He showers Mini with fatherly affection. Mini’s mother too shows parental love being protective over her daughter and voicing there concern to Mini’s father. There is also the pain of separation. Kabuliwallah also leaves his family back home in Afghanistan to earn a living. Specially his little daughter who is about the same age of Mini. Kabuliwallah sees in Mini the likeness of his own daughter. The feeling of solidarity is also portrayed. As a father who is to be separated from his daughter because of her wedding. In some way Kabuliwallah in also facing the pangs of separation from his own daughter.
