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Posts Tagged ‘Pagadala Nagender’

Come as a herald!

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Today, when new lives shall be planted

by digging up roots

from the time that doesn't return,

ascend these moonlit steps

and walk into my poem

 

Now, defying the dwija's role

'Chandala'!

Walk into my poem as a herald!

 

Come, to pour boiling lead

into the ears of the history that boycotted you!

 

Come so that you can

pee into the current Manu's mouth!

Come!

 

My translation of Pagadala Nagender's Telugu poem 'vaitALikuDavai raa! padyamlOki' (from the collection of Dalit poetry 'daLita kavitvam- 2'  edited by Dr.K.Lakshminarayana).

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