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
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 99. ’Twas One of Those Dreams. Томас Мур.
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нет рядом никого, как ни дыши
- A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Rose by William Cowper
- Олег Григорьев – Комары
- Вера Павлова – Зеркало по природе правдиво
- From My Last Years. by Walt Whitman
- Motto prefixed to the Author’s first Publication by Robert Burns
- Autumn Days by Will McKendree Carleton
- Николай Гумилев – Ольге Людвиговне Кардовской
- Behold, the grave of a wicked man by Stephen Crane
- Ок Мельникова – Плацкарт-блюз
- On The Move ‘Man, You Gotta Go. by Thom Gunn
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не заманишь меня на эстрадный концерт
- Untitled I by Yunus Emre
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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).
