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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. <br />
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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. <br />
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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><br />
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==Adaptations==<br />
The story has been adapted a number of times as listed below:<br />
*''[[Kshudhita Pashan]]'' by [[Tapan Sinha]], 1960 Bengali film<br />
*''[[Lekin...]]'' by [[Gulzar]], 1991 Hindi film<br />
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==Other ghost stories by Tagore==<br />
Tagore wrote several other [[ghost story|ghost stories]], including ''The Skeleton'', ''Lost Jewels'', ''In the Middle of the Night,'' and ''False Hope''.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of works of Rabindranath Tagore]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1895 short stories]]<br />
[[Category:Works by Rabindranath Tagore]]<br />
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[[Category:Ghosts in written fiction]]<br />
[[Category:Short stories adapted into films]]<br />
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