গীতাঞ্জলি২১

Gitanjali 21,

A song offering composed by Bengal’s mastermind poet, Rabindranath Tagore. Translated from Bengali into English by Tagore himself.

‘I must launch out my boat. The languid hours pass by on the shore—Alas for me!

The spring has done its flowering and taken leave. And now with the burden of faded futile flowers I wait and linger.

The waves have become clamorous, and upon the bank in the shady lane the yellow leaves flutter and fall.

What emptiness do you gaze upon! Do you not feel a thrill passing through the air with the notes of the far away song floating from the other shore?’

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A poetic muse to accompany this scene of Kolkata’s Howrah station, a Thursday evening. A small woman holds an oversized balloon.