Thursday, January 16, 2025

What I Was Not

 Mohan Rana's poems weave a rich tapestry of memory and nostalgia, a journeying through present living. Explore the lyrical beauty of these poems in Rituparna Mukherjee's translation in:

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What I Was Not

I kept thinking, thinking, thinking

That I would say this, think that

I kept thinking the livelong day

But hesitating, I kept living somewhere else

Not even in slumber

Did it come to me unbeknownst

What I was not.


Poems:


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What I Was Not

 Mohan Rana's poems weave a rich tapestry of memory and nostalgia, a journeying through present living. Explore the lyrical beauty of th...