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The kabiliwala

The cabuliwallah is from Kabul. His real name is Abdur Rahman. He works as a peddler in India. He goes to Kabul once a year to visit his wife and little daughter. In the course of selling goods, once he reaches to the house of writer, Rabindranath Tagore. Then his five years daughter, Mini calls him ‘Cabuliwallah! A Cabuliwallah’. When Cabuliwallah goes to visit Mini she is afraid because he is wearing loose solid clothes and a tall turban. He looks gigantic. When the writer knows that Mini is afraid, he introduces her with him. The Cabuliwallah gives her some nuts and raisins. Mini becomes happy from next day, the Cabuliwallah often visits her and he gives her something to eat. They crack looks and laugh and enjoy. They also feel comfortable in the company each other. The writer likes their friendship. But Mini’s mother doesn’t like it. She thinks that the peddler like Cabuliwallah can be child lifter. However, Mini and the Cabuliwallah becomes intimate friend.
The Cabuliwallah sells seasonal goods. Once he sells a Rampuri shawl to a customer on credit. He asks him for the money many times but he doesn’t pay. At last he denies buying the shawl. The Cabuliwallah becomes very angry and stabs the customer. Then he is arrested by police and taken him to the jail. He is jailed for eight years. When he is freed from jail at first he goes to visit Mini surprisingly. It is the wedding day and he isn’t allowed to visit her. When he shows the finger of a piece of paper to the writer, he permits to meet Mini who is in wedding dress. The writer knows that the Cabuliwallah has no money to go back to his house so the writer cuts of the wedding expenses like a light and bands and gives one hundred rupees to the Cabuliwallah and sends him to Kabul.
Interpretation:
The writer may be trying to show the attitude of peoples towards the foreigners and poor peddler. Although the Cabuliwallah is very simple and honest, writer’s wife suspects him as a child lifter, also tries to cheat him by not paying his money. The story also shows the plight of the people due to poverty. If the Cabuliwallah had enough money, he would not come to India leaving his wife and daughter in Kabul. The writer seems to shows that temper ruins anyone. If Cabuliwallah didn’t stab the costumer, he wouldn’t have to go to the jail. This story is also full of feelings of humanity. The writer cuts off the wedding expenses and helps the Cabuliwallah

Kabuliwala is a short story by Rabindranath Tagore about a relationship between a man and his family and a street trader, a "peddler" or kabuliwala in its native Hindi. The narrator of Kabuliwala is a writer himself, who talks about his inquisitive, five-year old daughter Mini, for whom being quiet is "unnatural." He speaks fondly of her constant "prattle" and her questions. He is compiling his latest novel amid these interruptions from his much-loved daughter but laments the fact that Mini gets very excited when she sees a kabuliwala on the street. He wonders if he will ever get the seventeenth chapter finished. He realizes that he will have to buy something if he is to have any chance at peace and quiet that day. In the meantime, Mini has hidden away, afraid of the street seller but because the seller asks about her, the narrator calls his daughter to come and greet him.
Some days later, the narrator is surprised when he finds Mini chatting with the kabuliwala. He gives the kabuliwala some money for the fruit and nuts which he has given to Mini but the seller gives the coin to Mini without her father's knowledge and almost causes trouble for her with her mother, who cannot understand why Mini would take money from a street trader.
An unusual friendship develops between Mini and the seller, and when he asks her when she is going to "the father-in-law's house" Mini is confused because her parents have kept the details of this custom from her (they consider themselves a modern, "new-fangled" family). The narrator tells the reader about the "double-meaning" and that the reference to the father-in-law's house can also suggest "jail, the place where we are well cared for, at no expense to ourselves." Mini does not understand but readily shares the joke with the peddler. The narrator admits that the kabuliwala also inspires him to imagine exotic travel but Mini's mother does not really trust the kabuliwala and often thinks the worst of people. However, the narrator recognizes this special relationship and allows his daughter to enjoy the kabuliwala's company whenever he visits.
However, one year the kabuliwala is sent to prison and Mini is dismayed that he is going to "the father-in-law's house," where he spends several years. As the years pass and the kabuliwala is forgotten, arrangements are made for Mini's marriage. Unexpectedly, the kabuliwala returns to the narrator's home, having been released from prison, but the narrator has no time for him until the kabuliwala shows him a piece of paper with a child's hand-print on it that belongs to his own daughter. When Mini comes to the door at her father's insistence, the kabuliwala realizes that his own daughter will also be a young woman as it has been eight years. The narrator recognizes his own blessings and, despite having to make some adjustments to the wedding festivities, he gives the kabuliwala some money, urging him to go home to his own daughter. There is solace for the narrator when he considers that "a long lost father met again with his only child."

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