Here is a free translation from Geetanjali, which you’ll hopefully like. When I read this, my daughter said, ‘It could have been written today!’
No wonder. It seems our system has become as enervating, as divisive, as dehumanising as the British Raj under which Tagore lived and wrote.
You’ll break the thread that
Holds the divine order?
Are you that powerful?
Are you really that powerful?
Your hubris makes you think
You could make or break us,
Pull us back, pin us down for ever,
But you really haven’t got the might,
You cannot stretch it any far!
You may go on building
Walls around your rule,
But the weak too has his strength within.
However big you may think
Yourselves to be, on our side we have
The Supreme Being,
By forcing us to lose
You just cannot win;
As deadweight piles up,
Your boat is going to sink.
Translated on Wednesday, 23 December 2020
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