Table of Contents -- Parabaas Issue 42

c c@mv (kH)

@Ac

w\/TFOS/Sv@

SF

c^/BfcSf/mpA/AF gK/~AgoS/qA..

Arr/A@r

Books_in_English

AST (AAgA/AgAA)

New Additions:
More poems of Mohammad Rafiq translated by Prasenjit Gupta: "at every instant, this possibility remains: instead of one footfall, another footfall. to jump the fence of a particular simile, metaphor, or symbol and find some other unknown style, meter, or tempo......."
Bathroom Hanne Ruth-Thompson translates Buddhadeva Bose's article from original Bangla— "Some of my opponents have at times referred to my writings as bathroom literature. In their minds bathrooms are associated with dirt and by saying this they want to express their heartfelt contempt for me. But sometimes the truth comes out by accident. Sometimes when we want to say one thing we end up saying the exact opposite. Clearly if my writings are bathroom literature then they must have some value..."
Two reviews, by Kathleen M. O'Connell and Uma Dasgupta respectively, of Tagore's Raktakarabi— translated and adapted by Nupur Gangopadhyay Lahiri as Red Oleanders.

@f

AOAin

UZ@ AAOA

ocA@ mpA@

R S R cp^ - AcKcpQ, vJ  cAU, oSAAXo H@, ASy ~HF qFA c reA w^ UZ@ ATA Sw mpAOH :

(1T c); (2 c);

ocA@ SF

c^ ; TUOS ; TFOS

j@ SM@ snf - AcS U " j@c BfcS  j, 2002  sZS AAS PAS@ n Acc  Sc^ WK ~L@S c AhaU ZS ~w BT AhaU, jZS j@ SM@ snf ST@ AcrU w^Av  AS AFq ~EOs  s  ..." (Sc^ WK j@ SM@ snf TUOS)

AOAl @Ac lc - sro OMof " Ur BSA^@ AOAl @Ac lc ~@, BSA^@ AUvU TFwABS @ @Ac oS cqA j@ZS vU vS UB UB gc @ cq, AcZF ~cpA@ SfU  R Ai O cUUS, cU oS, Ur ~T T @U@ cAXoBfcf jS @TS Uwa ? ..."

cA mH - dS c^FoF " SF sZS d U, AZ TS PcGcf AvAS UwS aJ Rq OAv WKv WKv  OUa | TBA  j@ j@  OUS ~ To@f | gf ~ ZZ @i To S @  sZS ..." (AUT TBT Bv-j TUOS)

~AOA@l qA - @MAr@ S " j  wU Ar ~AOA@l @ | @A ^ AS, s U w q-j-j,  ~cmv A@ ? ~S@ T jZSR W ~AOA@l OUa | ..."

w^TUOS

gcgkA gOs

AS q@ A\T lc 2008

f ATn

@Ac

~U@cU@ AOAi - Pcks gOs
Av @Ac -  Oncf
cK wS - Acg OMof
UB - AO 
~rff - j@T ~AU
ApAcw - @MAr@ S
Av @Ac - Sn c
OU, c sq - AS@f i@
ATAS - m 
UcU @Ac - sro OMof

w\

J@ - cBFA gOs j S ~fS il j@AS @UcU j@v ~Xg @ cU cU | dAv@A ZAhaUT BS ATU c^ c | ~SFTSmgc dAv AaJ AaJ R il AcAc @ cUU, ~T T A@  ! ..."

aUAv WT^  - ~A^T woF "aUAv WT^  BAa AS A@,"
 v U j@v Tc^ @ @ ~Sgc AS WT gC wU | Bw i Z @ ~ A@a S, vcU v c@  j a |  Aw aU WT^ rA^ aAc U TS  s j@Av S @Ac j@an | A@ jQn Aq A@ AS ? ..."

cAU - cAH Oncf @QS S -  cT vU j@v | O@A @  Bw @ wU j@v @ @  | ZAU @ZS Aw T  PA OhOA Zc ~ cM j OJTZ Zc  gcU OU S | s cUAa q @dS | R@ FT @ j@T c^ @dS | ..."

gTH@AAS

@mvA@ AZ ZJB - a^ OoF Acv "c ~T @a c@ ~@KSf U @mvA@ 850 @T AZ s AUmv a ST TS Zq TrA@U -  AAr @T vFSB, O^ @T ATec, r@T Vq@FO qFA qFA | F@AS ZT AAr OA\UrAv j@cq SS S-Z AZ ! ..."

cMXo f S - dS c^FoF " cQ| SFwo S TSB @US | AST O@ j@AS W j JU j@ wgcf TpwT TS | TpwB @a  ~So @U ^S B^s^ @ T R @ | ..."

SZH (AcB-AAB pf w\) - gcgkA gOs "@ AhaU FA@e AS |
S, AcB Zw\ ~ S, fAT ~A TASe ATAve | AS jZS ~T TBAUr AcB SS, TkATS c rfAcBSAcf @ ! RJS Ocq ATAve | AcK : FA@e, jce  ~v@ @AiS RU cSS | ..."

ST cU - ~SSF  >" "ST, ~AT Ai@ @Aa ~T STv \v Uc !"
"AF ! A@ @S ?"
"~T STv@ @ jZS Ai@ @ cU  S, \v Z | @U@ AS o AcU ~T@ U U cUa | s ST@ Rq @T Z @ R s q ST Z @SR Ug Sq !" ..."