TRANSLATIONS: ARUNAVA SINHA

Arunava

An Unequal Extramarital Affair: Mandakranta Sen

You can talk to my parents I don’t mind if you do We’ll talk later, you…
June 22, 1962: Binoy Majumdar

Then let it, let it all burn, the fountain, the gaping, wounded heart Let peace stay…
A Foreign Land: Mandakranta Sen

Wait, before being torn and ripped Let me memorise your lips The border of grass beyond…
This July: Mandakranta Sen

This July you went to the mountains Are the rains different over there? Do clouds suffer…
There Was Somewhere I Wanted To Go: Premendra Mitra

There was somewhere I wanted to go But never did In the closed room the panes…
I have seen postmen wandering in the autumnal forest: Shakti Chattopadhyay

I have seen postmen wandering in the autumnal forest Their yellow sacks filled with grass like…
The Tale of the Arjun and the Krishnachura: Mandakranta Sen

The Arjun tree stood alone in that field An Aryan male – a pillar of aristocracy…
Three Poems: Mandakranta Sen

After The Last Kiss After the last kiss I’ll bring back a fallen hair Life won’t…
Not a Very Happy Time, Not a Very Joyous Time: Shakti Chattopadhyay

Tottering from head to toe, from wall to wall, from parapet to parapet, swapping pavements at…
Two Love Poems by Nirmalendu Goon

~ 1 ~ When I tell you, ‘I love you’ It doesn’t mean that I don’t…