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1 Nadi Hudin Khon (From Childhood)
Theme
A daughter tells her mother:
Dear mother, you brought me up from childhood but you were not able to make use of my physical strength. You nourished me as a baby and taught me how to clean the courtyard, catch snails from the pond, collect the vegetables from the forest and firewood from the jungle. Now you married me off, but I know you will remember me and weep silently while taking food and sweeping the verandah. I am so sad that I am leaving you alone at home.
Literary translation
From a small child you grown me up
Where could you use my strength dear mother,
At the end of your life you will realize
You will be sweeping the courtyard by supporting your hip with your hand,
You will be eating rice keeping your hand on your cheek
Tears will be falling on the water bowl.
In the courtyard there is your broom
In the cowshed there is your basket to clean cow dung dear mother,
On the top and bottom of Garshade (raised platform to keep cleaned utensils) there are your utensils and bronze pot,
Now I leave you dear mother.
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Dr. Boro Baski works for the community-based organisation Ghosaldanga Adibasi Seva Sangha in West Bengal. The NGO is supported by the German NGO Freundeskreis Ghosaldanga und Bishnubati. He was the first person from his village to go to college as well as the first to earn a PhD (in social work) at Viswa-Bharati. This university was founded by Rabindranath Tagore to foster integrated rural development with respect for cultural diversity. The cooperation he inspired helps local communities to improve agriculture, economical and environmental conditions locally, besides facilitating education and health care based on modern science.
He authored Santali translations of two major works by Rabindranath Tagore, the essay “Vidyasagar-Charit” and the drama Raktakarabi (English “Red Oleanders”), jointly published by the Asiatic Society & Sahitya Akademi (India’s National Academy of Letters) in 2020.
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