Translated from the Original Bangla by Sreejit Datta é bhārote rākho nityo probhu (To listen to the original Bangla song, click here) To this Bhārata[i], Lord! May You every day grant – Thy blessings that are most benignant, The courage that issues from Thy hand, Thy Word immortal, unconquered; and Thine undying faith – a […]Read More

Translated from the Original Bangla by Sreejit Datta Chawrono-dhwoni Shuni Tawbo Natho (To listen to the original Bangla song, click here) Thy footsteps, Dear Lord, I hear On these shores of my life – In the myriad silent solitudes, In the many spells of sweet breeze. Astride the vastness of the sky, A host of […]Read More

Translated from the original Bangla by Sreejit Datta 1. Bawdo Dhoom Legeche Hridi-Kawmole  (To Listen to the Original Bangla Song, written by Mahendranath Bhattacharya aka ‘‘Premik Maharaj’’, a nineteenth-century Shakta poet from Bengal, Click Here) In the lotus-seat of my heart,  A great tumult has ‘rupted; And my mind, crazed as it is,  Bears witness […]Read More

Translated from the Original Bangla by Sreejit Datta I Protidino Ᾱmi Hé Jībono-svāmī (Click here to listen to the original Bangla song) Every day, O Lord of My Life! Shall I face Thee; Folded hands, O Lord of the Worlds! Shall I face Thee. Neath Thine endless skies, in solitude and seclusion, Lord! With a […]Read More

[Translator’s note: This is the final part of the English translation of Tagore’s essay “Brāḥmaṇa” from the anthology Bhāratavarṣa. The previous parts can be read here: Part I, Part II, and Part III.] The whole of our society is primarily Dvija[i]; and if it does not remain so, if it ends up being primarily a […]Read More

Translated from the original Bangla by Sreejit Datta Āji godhuli-lagone ei bādolo-gagone (To listen to the original Bangla song, click here) Today at this hour of the dusk, beneath these overcast skies  I count in my heart the steps of His feet – “He will come”, so says my mind throughout the day, And these eyes […]Read More

Translated from the original Bangla by Sreejit Datta (continuing from Part I and Part II) We know that not every member of a community upholds his dharma in its pristine form at all times; in fact, many of them fail to do so. In the Purāṇa-s we come across instances wherein many individuals, even though they […]Read More

A Prayer God of Poesy! Grant me a wish, just this one: So I may use my words discreetly, and never appease anyone; But blaze thru them Thy Rage pure and sublime, to duly warn Of consequences of hypocrisy, and forever shun The platitudes of mediocrity, and to rightfully earn The scorn of the little […]Read More

Translated from the original Bangla by Sreejit Datta Tāro Tāro Hori Dīnojone (To listen to the original Bangla song, click here) Redeem, O Hari, redeem this wretched one! Karuṇāmaya! O Thou who art full of love! Keep him who knows not sadhana nor worship, on Thy path!    I fail to see a rescuer on […]Read More