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The story The price of flowers, written by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay , is a touching tale. The narrator of the stories one Mr Gupta, who has been undergoing Indian civil service training in London . The narration is done in the first person .

In the story, Mr. Gupta comes across a young English girl hailing from a poor family . Her mother wants to meet an Indian who would provides her with some news about her son working as a soldier in India . When the woman falls ill , the girl forces the Indian to look at the crystal ring and tell her mother a lie, claiming that her son was alive and well . This false claim, however, led to her recovery . When Maggie's brother dies in the war, the girl gives a shilling to the Indian to buy flowers to be placed on the brothers grave . The main theme of the stories about the bonds of relationship - relationship between Maggie and her mother, relationship between Frank and his mother , the attachment of Maggie to her brother as well as the relation between the narrator and the impoverished English family .

In the course of the story, The author hints at the superstitious beliefs of the whites, as well as their misgivings about India .

The author has been able to describe the different characters vividly. When the girl offers the narrator a shilling to buy flowers to be laid on the grave of her brother , narrator is touched by the sacrifice of her hard earned money. He accept the money just to console the girl.

The stories worth reading even now, for nowadays we are living in a world where human relations have lost their sincerity...