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{{Infobox short story<br />
| name = Denapaona <br />
| author = [[Rabindranath Tagore]]<br />
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| language = Bengali<br />
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'''''Denapaona''''' ({{langx|bn|দেনাপাওনা}}; English: "The Matrimonial Deal" or "Debit and Credit") is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] short story written by [[Rabindranath Tagore]] in 1891.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MNWktZZciy8C|first=Santosh|last=Chakrabarti|title=Studies in Tagore: Critical Essays|publisher=Atlantic|year=2004|pages=92–93|isbn=9788126903405}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRlBDwAAQBAJ|first=Malashri|last=Lal|chapter=Introduction|title=Tagore and the Feminine: A Journey in Translations|editor-first=Malashri|editor-last=Lal|publisher=SAGE|year=2015|isbn=9789351504825}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20131110/spectrum/book3.htm|website=www.tribuneindia.com|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref> It is a heart-rending story of Nirupama.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://roar.media/bangla/main/literature/women-of-tagores-short-stories/|title=রবীন্দ্রনাথের ছোট গল্পের নারীরা|website=roar.media|access-date=2020-05-07|trans-title=Women in Rabindranath's short story}}</ref> The central theme of the story is dowry.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Plot ==<br />
Nirupama was a beautiful and matured daughter of Ramshundar Mitra. She was married to the son of Raybahadur. She was being tortured in the house of in-laws because her father could not meet the proposed dowry. Ramshunder sold his house for that but she forbade her father to give the dowry. Due to the tormenting life, She was extremely negligent about her own health and at last she died.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Dena Paona (The Dowry Death)|url=http://www.setumag.com/2017/01/dena-paona-dowry-death.html|access-date=2020-05-07}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Works by Rabindranath Tagore]]<br />
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