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Mandakranta Sen
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SWIM?
I can stop wearing jeansIf you ask me to. I'll become
Another woman quite easily
That the girl who loves you
Has short hair, not slicked with oil
(You told someone, I think)
Is impossible. Very well
I'll be a stranger to myself
From tomorrow, if you tell me that
A river will flow around your feet
When a blue sari is unfurled
I will toss away in the breeze
Each of my masculine habits
It's easy to give up wearing jeans
If I have to turn into a river
You know how to swim, don’t you?
© Translation: 2014, Arunava Sinha
From: After the Last Kiss
Publisher: HarperCollins India, New Delhi, 2014
From: After the Last Kiss
Publisher: HarperCollins India, New Delhi, 2014
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SWIM?
© 1999, Mandakranta Sen
From: Hridhay Abadhya Meye
Publisher: Ananda Publishers, Kolkata
From: Hridhay Abadhya Meye
Publisher: Ananda Publishers, Kolkata
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DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SWIM?
From: Hridhay Abadhya Meye
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SWIM?
I can stop wearing jeansIf you ask me to. I'll become
Another woman quite easily
That the girl who loves you
Has short hair, not slicked with oil
(You told someone, I think)
Is impossible. Very well
I'll be a stranger to myself
From tomorrow, if you tell me that
A river will flow around your feet
When a blue sari is unfurled
I will toss away in the breeze
Each of my masculine habits
It's easy to give up wearing jeans
If I have to turn into a river
You know how to swim, don’t you?
© 2014, Arunava Sinha
From: After the Last Kiss
Publisher: 2014, HarperCollins India, New Delhi
From: After the Last Kiss
Publisher: 2014, HarperCollins India, New Delhi
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