The Antonym Online

Translated from the Spanish by James Richie...

TRANSLATED FROM BENGALI BY PARTHA PRATIM DAS     Lovers and their Lady-loves One day lovers become husbandsHusbands, no longer loversBut they have omelette or sandwichesStroll around leisurelySmoke country cigarettesAnd watch blue films at night And lady-loves?…...

TRANSLATED FROM HINDI BY TARIKA Translation People are moving away – (everyone from everyone else) – People are moving away And it increases the ‘space’ around me!  This ‘space,’ I will not translate As ‘expanse’ but as ‘universe,’ Because in this, I have released a flying saucer. I thank time Because my watch is at…...

TRANSLATED FROM MARATHI BY PAROMITA GOSWAMI     Multi-attitude towards Adivasi Adivasi, in other wordstrees, grass, junglenaked women-men... ...Adivasia fantastic topicfor academic interpretation.For the missionarywrap in religious cloth,For volunteersobjects to be ‘purified’.For Naxalitesa proven weapon,useful…...

TRANSLATED FROM HINDI BY SASWATI SAHA     To a Woman who is Home Alone   You must forget your friendship with the oceanAnd those wintry daysThat you wore like a ring around your fingerTossing…...

TRANSLATED FROM KONKANI BY PARESH NARENDRA KAMAT     In the language of those kisses... When the trees dreamt themselves into blossom, the sea found wings in its waves. Unknowingly, the lips found their own…...

TRANSLATED FROM KASHMIRI BY MOHAMMAD ZAHID   Contemplations about Life (One)    You have to save the scorching summer in your eyes You’ll have to burn to ashes the shadowy evenings keep blazing words available to…...

In Poetic Fragments, the speaker longs for her beloved, whom she met only once, at the beginning of time, and now tries to trace him through her poetry...

TRANSLATED FROM HINDI BY SHIVANI YADAV     Today I saw some people from the visitor’s gallery.Those people who disappear after elections,Whom people wait for,Four and a half years to see again.Yes, today from the visitor’s…...