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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- Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way by William Shakespeare
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- English Poetry. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Blasphemy of Guns. Элла Уилкокс.
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- Sonnet Iv
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- M. Degas Teaches Art & Science At Durfee Intermediate School–Detroit, 1942 by Philip Levine
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- Give Me Strength by Rabindranath Tagore
- Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
- To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant
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