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
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- Владимир Маяковский – Не увлекайтесь нами
- To a son abroad by Sunil Sharma
- Crab by Sharon Olds
- Владимир Вишневский – Что хочешь ты – желанье изъяви
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- Федор Сологуб – Там, внизу, костры горели
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- INTO THE LAIR by Satish Verma
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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).
