Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by Navakanta Barooah (trans.)

Dreamer of paradise
Poet of achievement
Would you listen to solicitations
Of acrid tongues?
Would you revisit
To make this utterance:
you’d come but once and left forever
Never again to return!

Erecting a pleasure park
At Rajghat, Barakpore
we immortalise
your death!

Author : Navakanta Barua 

Nabakanta Barua (29 December 1926 – 14 July 2002) was a prominent Assamese novelist and poet. He was also known as Ekhud Kokaideu. As Sima Dutta he wrote many poems in his early life. He also won the following awards

  • 1974: Assam Prakashan Parisod Award, Mur aru Prithibir
  • 1975: Sahitya Akademi Award to Assamese Writers, Kokadeutar Har
  • 1976: Padma Bhushan, Literature & Education
  • 1993: Assam Valley Literary Award
  • 1998: Kamal Kumari National Award

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