Listen o listen:
Hark this tale of Khanaa
In Bengal in the Middle Ages
Lived a woman Khanaa, I sing her life
The first Bengali woman poet
Her tongue they severed with a knife
Her speechless voice, ‘Khanar Bachan’
Still resonates in the hills and skies
Only the poet by the name of Khanaa
Bleeding she dies.
(“Khanaa’s Song,” a poem by the author, translated by Amitabha Mukherjee)
Copyright ©: 2011, Mallika Sengupta
End of the poem
15 random poems
- V by Tony Harrison
- Иосиф Бродский – Буров тракторист
- MY BEST PAL by Steve Troyanovich
- Exeat by Stevie Smith
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ Чичерин и тралеры отдает и прочее
- Олег Григорьев – Футбол
- Screens (In a Hospital) by Winifred Mary Letts
- William Ellery Leonard – William Ellery Leonard
- Bivouac on a Mountain Side. by Walt Whitman
- A Child by William Ernest Henley
- Cavern in Paradise by Rita Odessa Villaruel
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Рожь
- Владимир Британишский – В Емуртлинском форпосте сибирских драгун
- The Azure Sea of an alien tongue
- Miracles by Siegfried Sassoon
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
