A poem of longing and desire, by Tirthankar, exclusively for Different Truths.
At the farthest end of a shimmering road, vague and hardly audible was a song sung by someone I didn’t know – at the farthest end of a burning road. The song was a tune afloat in the eddying air, like the skirt of a whirling gipsy woman, red, blue, green, white, all shining in a dizzying cloud. What shimmered that day at the farthest end of the lonely road? Unattended and scarcely heard, the skirt, like a gipsy’s, glowed.
Picture design by Anumita Roy, Different Truths
Tirthankar Das Purkayastha (b. 1956) is a Professor of English (retired) at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He has so far published three books of poetry in Bengali and many scholarly articles in academic journals. His translations of poems by Sunil Gangopadhyay have been published, with the poet’s approval, in South Asian Review and Indian Literature, a Sahitya Akademi journal. He has been regularly publishing poetry in all the leading journals of West Bengal.
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