Khanaa's Song Poem by Mallika Sengupta

Khanaa's Song

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Hark this tale of Khanaa
In Bengal in the Middle Ages
Lived a woman Khanaa, I sing her life
The first Bengali woman poet

Her tongue they severed with a knife
Her speechless voice, ‘Khanar Bachan'
Still resonates in the hills and skies
Only the poet by the name of Khanaa
Bleeding she dies.


[Translated by Amitabha Mukherjee]

Not: Khanaa (Bengali: ???) was an Indian poetess and legendary astrologist, who composed in medieval Bengali between the ninth and 12th centuries AD.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ramesh Rai 02 October 2014

Thanks for sharing such unknown fact and a great tribute to the medieval bengali poetess.

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Mallika Sengupta

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Nadia, West Bengal / India
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