Rajendra Bhandari

[Day´s Footprint]

1 शब्दहरुको पुनर्वास | Traduções : de
2 बजार गरेर | Traduções : de
3 बेरोजगार युवाको आइडेन्टिटी कार्ड | Traduções : de
4 एउटा सहरको रोजनाम्चा | Traduções : de
5 [Quiet Chaos] | Traduções : en
6 [Day´s Footprint] | Traduções : en
7 [Father and My Birthday] | Traduções : en
8 [an incomplete folk-tune] | Traduções : en
9 [Awake, asleep] | Traduções : en
10 [Time does not pass] | Traduções : en

língua: nepali

Traduções : inglês (Day´s Footprint)

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[Day´s Footprint]

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língua: inglês

Day´s Footprint

Parting the leaves of the banyan tree
the egg-shaped sun came
and
dropped The Times of India
at my door.

The Times of India gave me a country
floundering to be a nation,
a blood-stained earth
crying out to become a mother.

Later, the day gave me
agitating streets on fire
seeking a clear identity.
As the sun flared up in a flame,
the griddle of the sky
roasted the earth like a roti
ravenously consumed
by a handful of mouth
round a table.

Translated from the Nepali by Pankaj Thapa

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Rajendra Bhandari

* , Darjeeling, India, Índia
vive em: Gangtok, India, Índia

Rajendra Bhandari (born 1956) is a Nepali poet of repute. An Associate Professor of Nepali Language and literature at the Sikkim Government College, Gangtok, he holds a doctorate in Nepali literature from the University of North Bengal. He has published five collections of poetry and has won various awards over the years, including the Diyalo Purashkar in Poetry from the Nepali Sahitya Sammelan, Darjeeling (1981), the Shiva Kumar Rai Memorial Award for poetry from the South Sikkim Sahitya Sammelan (1998) and the Dr Shova Kanti Thegim Memorial Award for poetry from the Shovakanti Memorial Trust, Gangtok (1999).

Born in Darjeeling and located in Gangtok for thirty years, Bhandari’s poetry has been deeply affected by his social milieu. Unimpressed by “verbal jugglery and over-experimentation in form”, the poetry he values employs an uncluttered cadence, a colloquial diction and a lucid style.

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