Home is Grandma’s Butterfly Breath in a Guava Tree
First published in Plato’s Caves online Home is a kidnapper who has finally made you submit to its territory, mapped and unmapped. Home is your first partner in crime who, by introducing you to its...
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Letter Writing by Rabindranath Tagore
Translated by Bhaswati Ghosh You gave me a gold-plated fountain penAnd a cornucopia of writing equipment.A small walnut-wood desk. Letterheads in different designs.Silver paper with an enamel...
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The Filtered Light of Freedom
First published in Live Wire Like air and freedom, light, too, is suspiciousof prison cells. Here, muscularity, minacious,well-oiled, prowls around the clock, a wild catin command of its turf. Women...
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I Won’t Let the Sun Sink by Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena
Translated by Bhaswati Ghosh I won’t let the sun set now.Look, I’ve broadened my shouldersand tightened my fists.I have learned to stand firmby embedding my feet on the slope. I won’t let the sun...
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Enter the Void by Juan Felipe Herrera
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Identity by Rabindranath Tagore
Translated by Bhaswati Ghosh Once my boat had docked on this very bankThe fresh breeze of spring had caressed its flank.You all called out to askIf I had a particular markIf there was somewhere I...
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Translation: Bhaswati Ghosh My name sounds like a Muslim’s Slaughter me and set my home ablaze Plunder the room where my statements stay awake Where I whisper to Tulsi’s Ramayana And say to Kalidasa’s...
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In Praise of Slowness
Because time is not aSuper highway, not even aRoad. It’s the mist that rolls Over mountains when oneCares to notice. Drink it like A flu patient does chicken broth. Learn to watch likeThe robin does,...
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Thirty-eight years with Shakti
Samir Sengupta Translated from the Bangla byBhaswati Ghosh First published in Parabaas From Shakti Chattopadhyay’s handwrittenfacsimili edition ofKuri Bochhorer Kuriti(‘Twenty Years, Twenty Poems’) I...
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