To Moon or Elsewhere
translated by Soma Roy Let us go to Moon or to Mars * No empty space remains here. On railway-tracks, in between the Gulmohors, Atop coconut trees How did so many skyscrapers spring up? * Even a small piece of land is not available here. Let us leave the grasslands then, and fly into the sky. There we will build a thatched roof – our own dream house. That is better, That is the best. * Despair be kept aside, * The whole sky is there for us. Translator Soma Roy was born in 1959 and brought up at Chandernagore, then earned a master’s degree in chemistry from Burdwan...
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