INFATUATION

Original : Assamese : Guna Moran

Translation : Bibekananda Choudhury

Bought from the market

A heavily laden stock of joy

Than sorrow

For you

Life

But I did not know

Your intimate relationship with sorrow

If it was sorrow that had been your favourite

Would have never sought joy for you

For what grief did you get infatuated by sorrow

Life

There had not been any obligation on your part

To keep joy at bay as such

Why do you need all the sorrow

If sorrow does not feel grief on seeing the plight of joy

If joy is so sidelined

Your beloved sorrow would not remain intact

Knowing fully well

Learning the consequences

Why did you befriend sorrow

I could understand at all

Life!

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About the Artist:

  Guna Moran is an Assamese poet & critic. His poems are being translated into Italian and France language and have been published in various national and international magazines, journals, websites, newspapers such as The Tuck magazine, Spillword, The Merak magazine, The Setu magazine, Story Mirror, The Poem Hunter, The Sentinal, The Hills Times, Best Poetry and so on.

About The Translator:

Bibekananda Choudhury, an electrical engineer by profession working with the State Government of Assam has completed his Masters from BITS-Pilani. He has also earned a diploma in French language from Gauhati University. He has got published works (both original and translated) in Assamese, Bengali & English in popular periodicals and newspapers. His translated poems have been published in ‘Indian Literature’, the bi-monthly journal of sahitya akademy. ‘Suryakatha’, the Bengali adaptation done by him of the is being taught in the undergraduate Courses of Banglore University and Post graduate Courses of Gauhati University. A collection of 101 folk tales from the foothills of Patkai translated by him has also been taken up by publication by Gauhati University. He is presently the editor-in-chief of Dimorian Review a multidisciplinary web journal.