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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Translation of Parul Kakkar's Shava Vahini Ganga but from the Malayalam with some transcreation by me.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKT4P-up3Xg

Parul Kakkar's Shava Vahini Ganga (Corpse bearing Ganga.)
Translated by Dr Koshy AV
Don't be sad but rejoice, say the corpses in one voice
O King in your Ram Rajya
We see the corpses floating in Ganga
Lord, the trees have all become ash
There is not even a speck of a place in the crematorium
There is no undertaker/overtaker there or people to carry the corpses to the pyre
No one to sit near and cry
To those of us who lost everything, only the dance of death/Yama continues around us, O King
In your Ram Rajya our corpses float around in the Ganga
Spitting smoke and spitting smoke even the chimney is panting
The virus has caught us and is shaking us
Our bangles are breaking, and our insides are hurting, burning like fire
When the city is burning, the pandit is playing the veena
O King, in your Ram Rajya corpses floating through Ganga too I see
What pomp and power there was in your get up and style earlier
Now the city sees your real face
Say no excuse now but come out in the open and say loudly, loudly
That you are wearing nothing and have no ability and are lazy
And we will not rest now as meek but act, watch!
Smoke rings rise and rise to touch the sky, the city is angry and seething
Don't you know in your kingdom through Ganga the corpses are floating at all?

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