TRANSLATIONS: ARUNAVA SINHA

Poetry

Skysoaked: Jibanananda Das

Suranjana, you better not go there You better not talk to that young man Come back,…
A poem: Jibanananda Das

Quiet lamps everywhere – moist smells – soft murmurs The ferry boats moored very close to…
Age: Sunil Gangopadhyay

So I’m growing older? I ask myself, laughing, Several times in the bathroom before my shower…
Urvashi: Samar Sen

Will you flow into our middle-class blood Like clouds racing across the horizon Or will you…
A poem: Jibanananda Das

Once I have left this body Shall I not return to earth? Let me come back…
The Artist Returns: by Sunil Gangopadhyay

The artist returns, but is this any way to go back? Treading the river bank, where…
Babar’s Prayer: Sankha Ghosh

Here I kneel towards the west now Spring has arrived empty-handed today Destroy me if your…
Camellia: Rabindranath Tagore

Kamala was her name I saw it on the cover of her book She was on…
For Neera, Suddenly: Sunil Gangopadhyay

Three minutes at the bus-stop, yet for hours in my dream last night I saw you…
There you stand in the balcony

By Sunil Gangopadhyay There you stand in the balcony Vanity doesn’t become you Are you just…