Author: Biswadip Chakraborthy

Jhelum Tribedi

Translated from the Bengali by Moulinath GoswamiΒ Β  Twilight Sitting alone on the lap of solitary time The neighborhood closes in Someone comes and turns on the faucet The evening water supply– Water too has its own evening...

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Milan Chatterjee

Translated from the Bengali by Subhadip Maitra Light’s Disease Imagine, you have stumbled upon the light, Imagine, you are in much need of the light, Delighted, you have captured it in your hat, and Someone appears at the...

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Timirkanti Ghosh

Life Again One day This time will fall asleep with shortness of breath by itself. The human being Will cure the disease one day At risk. Only a few of us Became joyous temporary, And set fire to the jungle. It burned The skin of...

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Rudra Muhammad Shahidullah

Translated from the Bengali by Mohammad Shafiqul Islam Delusion What sort of delusion is this! While so close it seems you’re far away, beyond reach, the periphery of distance to the sky. If you come, climate and nature appear...

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Sayantani Bhattacharya

Translated from the Bengali by Manjish RoyΒ Β  Uniform The farewell of rain I place my hand on water By the edges of the moon The plaintive songs of the moonlight… The soft matter comes to fill the sticky world With an exuberant...

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Khin Miya Zin

Translated from the Burmese by Toe Kyaw Hlaing Evening Just After the Rain Water has flowed With a murmur like a harp so old The sky Where birds of no refuge roam and repose Is the evening clear and nice? Ripples collide...

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Shamim Faruk

Have a good weekend Never save that memory of excitement and joy. Shake your body fluid and hair By sitting, laying your body, bending knees. My breath and blood was moving faster inside. You refreshed your body from the window...

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Pritam Biswas

Rise of a Knight My King, bless me like a shadow. I am looking towards tomorrow. Your sword appears like a dragon; Leaving the life you never look upon. Every night my sleep runs away. What you think has happened today? I hear...

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Bhaskar Chakraborty

Translated from the Bengali by Nilanjan Chattopadhyay At the Restaurant Sitting close to an ardent – Philologist Presently afternoon wears away, slowly. Remembering the embrace- Remembering a tranquil smiling face. Blood...

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Hindol Bhattacharya

Marriage Like a distance between a murder and its weapon We stared at each other; on the road, the two co-passengers we were,- We exchanged love, kissed, promised to not to leave while living; We made love under the lunatic...

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Tapash Roy

Translated from theΒ  Bengali by Nirmalya Biswas Unseen I seek around identity among the Collective sounds of the Earth Yet, I wish to remain unidentified The sky unveils even more, as I cross Purnia, come undone the Beauties of...

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Yashodhara Raychaudhuri

The shop poem In this hapless , blind shop-trap Everything that you see , you feel like buying, asap. In the stories and the shoptalks In the gory red bedrocks In the buying and selling of bloodied dead wings I could buy the...

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  1. Can you please cite the original poem ? Where to find it in Bangla?

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