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  • Exile : Alokeranjan Dasgupta
    translated from Bengali to English by Bhismadev Chakrabarti


    Exile

    Alokeranjan Dasgupta

    translated from the original Bengali by
    Bhismadev Chakrabarti



    I look at villages and
    I see my mother
    As a child.

    I look at hills in the villages and
    I see my love
    As a child.

    Waterfalls spring from the heart of these hills
    I look, and I see
    Each home that was left behind.

    The river stretches beyond the waterfall
    Watched over by a wooden bridge, longing
    I look, and I see
    Noakhali,
                              the bridge that did not bear, and
                              the god that did not yield.


    Published December, 2012



    The original poem [Nirbasan (নির্বাসন)]] appeared in the collection of poems under the title Rantakto Jharokha, published by Bharabi, Kolkata, in 1969.


    Illustrated by Ananya Das. Author of several books and an illustrator, Ananya Das is based in Pennsylvania.

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