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
- Николай Заболоцкий – Небесная Севилья
- At Malvern by William Lisle Bowles
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Mr. James Gracie:
- Some Clouds by Steve Kowit
- Владимир Высоцкий – У нас вчера с позавчера
- Sonnet LI by William Shakespeare
- Pain Became My Friend Today © by Shannen Wrass
- Михаил Лермонтов – Весна
- The Grey Rock by William Butler Yeats
- A Letter From Italy poem – Alfred Austin
- Виталий Тунников – Бумеранг
- Lines on the Author’s Death by Robert Burns
- A Study Of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin
- Михаил Лермонтов – Война
- Robert Burns: Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut:
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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).
