Friday, August 01, 2008

Lost in translation?

My friend Aseem turns up with this beautiful piece of bengali poetry:

Shabdo jakhon ortho khoje
Hajar kothar bhirer maajhe
Oshanto mon mukti chaay
Ek nimeshe haariye jete, chhelebelake fire pete
Baadhonchhera ghurir moto batash-ghungur laagiye paaye

I dont know who wrote it but having being assigned the task of translating it for my friend, I ended up with this:

when the sounds look for meaning amongst the heaping pile of words, the restless mind just craves for freedom to be lost to reclaim childhood once again like an untethered kite, flying with only the breeze as its ankle-bells

I hope it has managed to capture the mood and meaning of the poetry. Got a nice sense of satisfaction after writing it :)
I urge my bengali brethren to give their views.

48 comments:

Unknown said...

FO

killjoy said...

B
H!

bania babble said...

Abhinandan!

Priyanka Sarkar said...

Aseem really managed to do that!!!!I m still in a state of shock......

Indrajit said...

Hey!
I came here thru Priyanka Sarkar's blog. HEr list consist of some 20 odd bloggers and just see.... I picked up urs..
Coincidence, plain luck- I don't know.
Perhaps innate Bong instinct brought me here.

Enough of my blabbers now.
The bengali one is fantatstic..
Aar tumi o oshadharon bhabe shofol...onubad korte.
Khub bhalo..

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