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
- Федор Тютчев – К портрету государственного канцлера, князя А.М. Горчакова
- Василий Жуковский – К Дмитриеву (Нет, не прошла)
- Eclogue VI by Virgil
- Alba poem – Ezra Pound poems
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 83. Dip down upon the northern shore poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: The Cooper O’ Cuddy:
- Lets go by Vinko Kalinić
- Ольга Седакова – Старый поэт (Постскриптум)
- My Child Wafts Peace by Yehuda Amichai
- In A Railroad Station by Sara Teasdale
- Николай Языков – Виленскому (Не робко пей, товарищ мой)
- Sonnet Ii
- The Seven Sisters by William Wordsworth
- Although they are by Sappho
- Ольга Седакова – Памяти одной старухи
Some external links:
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).
