If certainly there is death
If it waits near, near a bush, like a hunter
Behind the door, on the roof, in dark alleys,
In the crossing where four roads meet,
If it will certainly come
Why not today!
When … [Read the rest...] “If There is Death, Certainly | Taslima Nasrin (Trans.)”
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After Twenty Five Years | Jibanananda Das
When I last met her in the field-
I said, ‘One day in this time
Come again, if you desire
After twenty five years!’
Saying this I returned to my home,
After then, how many times
Moon and star
Died … [Read the rest...] “After Twenty Five Years | Jibanananda Das”
For Quite a Long Time | Binoy Majumdar
You have gone for quite a long time,
Return one day like the flood again;
Like a dry fruit of Sheerish amidst the enlivened leaves
I pass my life,
Seldom when I see at the old wall,
From the several … [Read the rest...] “For Quite a Long Time | Binoy Majumdar”
One with the Time | Binoy Majumdar
Binoy Majumdar won the Sahitya Academy Award in 2005.He is the poet who revolutionized Bengali Poetry in the post-Tagore era. Binoy's originality lay in his attempt to relate the various elements of nature to one another through objective logic and scientific enquiry. [Read the rest...] “One with the Time | Binoy Majumdar”