The postmaster by Rabindranath Tagore is a short story of a postmaster from Calcutta who is assigned a post in a village. This sudden change in his lifestyle upsets him. He longs for the city life and hates the village because he misses his family and the city he has lived in. His salary is small and so he has to cook his own meals. He shares his meal with an orphan girl from the village, Ratan. Ratan did odd jobs for the postmaster. He writes poems about the natural landscape of the village sometimes but her secretly wishes he lived in a city and not in the village. Usually in the evenings, the postmaster would call Ratan and talk to her about her family. Occasionally he used to share memories of his family with Ratan. Eventually Ratan started speaking of his family as her own. One day, the postmaster decides to teach Ratan to read and write. In a few days ' time, Ratan was well versed in double consonants. This became a habitual practice. Ratan used to wait for the postmaster to call her to teach. But one day there was no call from the postmaster 's room. Ratan tiptoes into the postmaster 's room to find him sleeping. When she 's about to leave, she hears a call from the postmaster. He feels sick and asks her to check if he has fever. Ratan feels his forehead only to find out he is sick. Suddenly there is a change in her attitude and she transforms into a caretaker, takes role of his family and calls the doctor and gives the postmaster his medicines and cooks him meals.