The Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) is rather sparsely read today, according to the author Pankaj Mishra, but we would do well to read him more often—for his warm-hearted, cosmopolitan worldview, as well as for his ability to tease out quiet vignettes of everyday life. We present three stories that exemplify these gifts: “The Kabuliwallah,” a bittersweet gem of a story about an itinerant Afghan merchant and a privileged Calcutta girl; “The Postmaster,” another narrative of intergenerational obligation and (mis)understanding; and “The Hungry Stones,” an old-fashioned otherworldly adventure, reminiscent of the One Thousand and One Nights of the Islamic Golden Age.