Poem Translation

Translation :Dr Playiparambil Mohamed Ali Once upon a timeThe canal in front of our houseWas a bathing place ,Women around our villageUsed to come to have a bath there . When Kaliyamma appears thereFor her bath ,The whole place becomes silent. Pantana bushes , growing along the canal , bloomWhenContinue Reading

Leaning against the wallJawaharlal sat, gazingat the lifeless body before him. Manu had set right the displaced glasses,to a perfection,that face hadn’t in life. Outside, slogans soared, mostly that‘Gandhi is immortal’.For the dead Gandhitreatment through language. That dead body seemedlike a morsel of bread, left overby a sated someone. WhoContinue Reading