By Hiren Bhattacharya
You know only too well This poet has nothing else anymore. Just a lone shirt that too with precarious stitches. Love surely is like this Opens up the covering to fill the heart.
Translated by Uttam Duorah
Hiren Bhattacharya (b.1932-d.2012) was an Assamese poet and lyricist best known for his lyric poems.
Uttam Duorah, the translator, retired as the HoD, English, Women’s College, Tinsukia and is based in Tinsukia, Assam.