| WRITERS AND THEIR WORKS |
BELAL CHOUDHARY
Bengali Writer
Born: November 12, 1938 at
Feni.
Address: Paltan Housing
Society,
Bldg. No.1, Flat J, 41A
Purana Paltan,
Dhaka.
Ph:
9558396
Important Works:
- Eight Anthologies of Poems
- One Anthology of Prose
- One Juvenile Novel and Rhyme
- One Travelogue
- One Novel
Honours:
- Alakta Literary Award
- Bangla Academy Literary Award
The Path of History
The way the supple morning rays
Toddle on the extensive
fields,
Your touches prevail, poet,
Around us all the time in our
hearts.
With an engulfing thirst like the fire in a jungle,
You wanted the
liberation of man, of fatherland,
Whom can you fulfil and how
much
How far is one to walk to see the blazing embers of your heart?
We don't know, so we try to touch
By your heart and with your
love,
The excruciating pains of the oppressed
In Asia, Africa and
all over the world.
We watch how in fiery flamings
Your curly hair
curl
Like a burnt paper.
Our tongues blaze, the marrow of our bones
burns out.
The sounds that had poured music on us so long
Are now
the volleys of guns , wails of panic
And birds of life fleet away in
flight;
How far will they move smouldering
Combating , time and
again
Till their wings burn to cinder?
On how long a path of human
history.
- translated by Tito Choudhary
 Print
This Page |