​​​​​​THE ELDER SISTER is a translation of Rabindranath Tagore's short story 'Didi' written in 1895. Read on to know more... I Having described at length the misdeeds of an unfortunate woman's wicked, tyrannical husband, Tara, the woman's neighbour in the village, very shortly declared her verdict: ‘Fire be to such a husband's mouth.’ At this Joygopal Babu's wife felt much hurt; it did not become womankind to wish, in any circumstances whatever, a worse species of fire than that of a cigar in a husband's mouth. When, therefore, she mildly disapproved the verdict, hard-hearted Tara cried with redoubled vehemence:...