Wahe Guru, May the beams of light, That emits through you, Realize you as the origin. Wahe Guru, May the streamlet of the mountain, Consolidate in the ocean of Dharma, Where your essence lies. Wahe Guru, May the flowers of the garden bloom, And look at the veins of existence, That lies in […]Read More
When palls covered the daylight, Twilight has descended upon the moon, The course dazed the foot keepers, Hope had become un-anticipatable, He arrived. Yes, He arrived, As a roaring lion of Matrubhumi, As a glimmer of optimism in the gloom, To build the pillar of Swarajya, And to heighten and spread the wings of […]Read More
Will you ever return? Oh my, Janani, Greatest of the great, Purest of the pure. Will you ever return? Oh, my Matru, To thy home, To thy children. Will you ever return? Oh, my Jagadambe, To the peaks of your strength, To the strengths that speak of your peak. Will you ever […]Read More
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
ছিল কার মলিনচরণত্রাণ হয়ে, ততোধিক মলিন অনামা জুতোজোড়া – ধরমের কল বুঝি নড়েছে বাতাসে, তাই উড়ে এল তোদের দিকে রে মুখপোড়া! দিনে-ডাকাতির দল দোহাই পেড়েছে মায়ের মাটির আর মানুষের নামে, দ্যাখ্ দেখি ঘুষখোর কীরকম লাগে – সেই মা যখন চটি ছুঁড়ে মারে ঐ গালে! Note: For the audio version […]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
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