Prakalpa Ranjan Bhagawati’s Poem

Translated by Uttam Duorah

Prakalpa Ranjan Bhagawati is an Indian poet, writer and translator who writes in Assamese, the major language of Assam in North-East India. He has drawn wide critical attention through his first collection of poems titled Baladharohi Aru Anyanya Kabita (The Bullock Rider and Other Poems) published in 2021. His poems have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation; Muse India; Guftugu ; Indian Cultural Forum; Deshabhimani Weekly.

Uttam Duorah, the translator, retired as the HoD, English, Women’s College, Tinsukia and is based in Tinsukia, Assam.

Original Assamese poem.