Such novels as bGora/b, Seser kavita (Farewell My Friend) and Ghare baire (The Home and the World) demonstrate not only Rabindranath's skill with the novel form but, even in translation, some of the innovations he brought to the Bengali b...../b In 1890, Tagore began managing his family's vast bestates/b in Shilaidaha, a region now in Bangladesh; he was joined by his wife and children in 1898. As "Zamindar Babu", Tagore crisscrossed the holdings while living out of the family's ...