“The Sandgrain” is Rabindranath Tagore’s first novel, Nobel Prize laureate, poet, creator and thinker—one of the titans of the Bengal Renaissance. It is a story of a family and of love blooming in spite of the cruel tradition, prejudice, pride, and submission. At the center of the narrative is the fate of a young widow condemned to live in half-light, alienation, and humiliation. She is not allowed to laugh, love, or hope—only to atone for her “sin” before her family until death, for her early widowhood. But Binodini, charming in her nickname “The Sandgrain,” is intelligent, educated, and full of life. She wants to live her own life, love by her own choice, and has the audacity to go after her goal.