Poem
Ranajit Das
SHERLOCK HOLMES’ INDIA TRIP
All the walls are pasted with cow-dung cakes, you see.Every cow-dung cake contains deep fingerprints.
Have you noticed, my dear Watson?
These fingerprints are the central clues
for my investigation in this country.
Tell me, Watson,
from this bizarre wall-record of fingerprints
made of excreta and sunlight—
every ridge of which reveals
the immense sorrow of famished women—
what deduction can you make
of crime, slow-poisoning, sunstroke and God?—
© Translation: 2011, Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee
From: A Summer Nightmare and Other Poems
Publisher: Rupa and Co, New Delhi, 2011
From: A Summer Nightmare and Other Poems
Publisher: Rupa and Co, New Delhi, 2011
শালক হোমস-এর ভারত-ভ্রমণ
শালক হোমস-এর ভারত-ভ্রমণ
সকল দেয়াল জুড়ে অজন্ত্র ঘু'টের সার, দ্যাখো ।প্রাতিটি ঘৃ'টের তালে হাতের গভীর ছাপ
দেখতে পাচ্ছো, 'প্রয় ওয়াটসন ?
এদেশে, আমার
এটিই তদন্তসূন্ত। বলে দোঁখি, ওয়াটসন
হাতের ছাপের এই রৌদ্র ও প্রীষময় আশ্চর্য দেয়ালপুথ
যার প্রাতি ভাজে ভাজে ফুটে আছে
শীর্ণকায় নারীদের শোকাচ্ছন্ন দ্রাবিড় আঙ্ল-_
এর মধ্যে তুমি কোন্ অপরাধ, মৃদুহত্যা, সূর্ধদাহ এবং ঈশ্বর
অবরোহী প্রণালীতে একে একে শনান্ত করেছো ?
© 1987, Ranajit Das
From: Samay, Sabuj Daini (Time, the Green Witch)
Publisher: Ranajit Das, Kolkata
From: Samay, Sabuj Daini (Time, the Green Witch)
Publisher: Ranajit Das, Kolkata
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SHERLOCK HOLMES’ INDIA TRIP
All the walls are pasted with cow-dung cakes, you see.Every cow-dung cake contains deep fingerprints.
Have you noticed, my dear Watson?
These fingerprints are the central clues
for my investigation in this country.
Tell me, Watson,
from this bizarre wall-record of fingerprints
made of excreta and sunlight—
every ridge of which reveals
the immense sorrow of famished women—
what deduction can you make
of crime, slow-poisoning, sunstroke and God?—
© 2011, Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee
From: A Summer Nightmare and Other Poems
Publisher: 2011, Rupa and Co, New Delhi
From: A Summer Nightmare and Other Poems
Publisher: 2011, Rupa and Co, New Delhi
SHERLOCK HOLMES’ INDIA TRIP
All the walls are pasted with cow-dung cakes, you see.Every cow-dung cake contains deep fingerprints.
Have you noticed, my dear Watson?
These fingerprints are the central clues
for my investigation in this country.
Tell me, Watson,
from this bizarre wall-record of fingerprints
made of excreta and sunlight—
every ridge of which reveals
the immense sorrow of famished women—
what deduction can you make
of crime, slow-poisoning, sunstroke and God?—
© 2011, Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee
From: A Summer Nightmare and Other Poems
Publisher: 2011, Rupa and Co, New Delhi
From: A Summer Nightmare and Other Poems
Publisher: 2011, Rupa and Co, New Delhi
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