Then Will Come Envy
Viren Dangwal [Translations: Ashok Pande] Defining the poet of our times, Nazim Hikmet once remarked: “The real poet is not engaged in his love, his happiness or pain. In such poet’s poems...
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Quite A Few Struggles Remain Local
Vyomesh Shukla (for Pranay Krishna) --------------------------------------- A statement about a place means reaching that place. Only they understand the statement of that place whose place it is. The statement about one’s place...
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Champak, Certified
Shubham Shree Comrade I right through the evening, samosas wolfed pakoras, bread rolls gobbled a million cups of tea guzzled marking time for those mess bells at the age of 28,...
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That Brass Of Our Inheritance
Translations: Tarun Bhartiya ____________________________________ Raghuvir Sahay Laugh Laugh Laugh Instantly Laugh - you are being watched, Laugh but not at yourself because its bitterness Would be noticed and...
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‘Fearless, You Cannot Be My Prey’
Savithri Rajeevan As You Bathe Your Mother As you bathe your mother be mindful as with a child. Let the body not slip from your hands let the water be mildly warm Do...
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The Nineteenth of May, Selections
Translations: Arjun Chaudhuri ---------------------------------------- Feeling the Nineteeth--of Poetry and Resistance Tushar Kanti Nath The Language Movement of 1961 has provided immense enthusiasm to the poets and writers of Barak Valley; it...
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Fafamau
Prasanta Chakravarty ওর আর কোনো গতি নেই জানো, কবিতা লেখা ছাড়া—she does not have any recourse, you know, other than writing poetry. This is what rings in my ears. This...
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Calcutta, Crow
Brinda Bose I what conversations do you hold with the room you grew up in? are they the colour texture stink of seaweed, soaked in the spirit of briny seas olive black with...
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Two Glistening Wheels, a Bell and a Tiffin-Carrier
Krishna Kalpit Vishwa Hindi Sammelan The language in which we wail And shed tears They ride on it And fly up above those clouds One says I did not go...
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No Phallus, No Death
Udayan Ghosh Choudhury Tarpan (i) baba had said: however tall you grow, let your feet be grounded since then i am standing with my two legs on the ground ma, tell me...
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Disruptive Noumena
Siddharth Soni I. Linda Gascrif’s visual poem appears in a September 2005 edition of the Times Literary Supplement: “… I give you blank space { } to protest.” Only a few...
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Affect and Absence: Irony in Siegfried Sassoon’s War Poetry
Avinash Antony & Somak Mukherjee On 13th July 1918 Siegfried Sassoon, now a decorated war-hero, was shot in the head near Arras, France. Ironically, it was not the enemy but a...
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Moonlit Rats and Owls
Manash Bhattacharjee Today is the sixtieth death anniversary of Jibanananda Das (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954). Shaking himself off Tagore’s Victorian and mystical influences, Jibanananda made the most distinctive mark in...
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