Sahitya Akademi

Now It's Time to TalkAuthor(s): Rameswar Bhattacharya and Bikach ChaudhuriSource: Indian Literature, Vol. 49, No. 5 (229) (September-October 2005), pp. 69-70Published by: Sahitya AkademiStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23346205 .

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Come back friend

Let's hear Chetuang— The story of eternal love.

Translated from Bengali by Bikach Chaudhuri

Now It's Time to Talk

In the corner of the house

There is the Buddha speechless I have spoken to him

At times language of protest assumes stony silence

Burried behind creepers and spider-web the stone idol lies

After soil excavation

who will lay claims

over the vast treasure of

Pilak civilization

I just have no idea

How much more atonement we need

to awake Ahalya from her eternal slumber

You had promised me

a flight to heaven

in exchange of gold coins

gift of cows

I do not know when

when indeed will I have

the divine ride to heaven, Does any one really know?

Having seen and heard all

the silent Buddha will

nod his head

and speak out now.

Ramswar Bbattachaiya / 69

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He'll speak against war

defeat Acharya Shankar

in argument of logic For, now is the time to speak

Now-a-days talking to the stone idol

dumped in the corner of home, one can get to know

all secret information.

Translated from Bengali bj Bikach Chaudhuri

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