జనగణ్

Janagan[1]

By

Saamaanya

Let us talk about

A journey that was curtailed halfway

A spring that was shot down in its midst

Talk about a deceitful claw of shameless inhumanity

Let us talk about

The tears flowing out of a burst oceanic heart

The thousand hoods of venomous snakes that distort even tears

Let us talk about

The ladder to the heavens

The seas that touch the ladder

The counting crocodiles that pull the legs

Let us talk about

Our erased identities and primitive roots

Lost between the lines

Punjaba sindhu gujarata maraatha draavida utkala banga...

Let us talk about

‘Spashto babe’ janagan

And the valleys of hearts in every house won over

Let us talk about

The long paths that we traversed from

Tangedu[2] flowers to Sal[3] forests

The rivers that connected Godavari and Ganga

Let us talk about

Dreams and the life spent in realizing them

Let us talk about

The sun that gone down due to backstab

Let us talk about

A hero

Let us talk about

Defiance that teaches us the abundance of new dawns

Let us once again talk

About the meaning of janagan

Let us talk about

The jayahe to be sung in honor of

Adhinaayaka of our janagan

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అనువాదం న N . వేణు 

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[1] Janagan in Bengali means multitude of people. The national anthem begins with this phrase and the poet alludes to the phrase and parts of national anthem.

[2] A typical wild bush in Telangana

[3] A typical hardwood tree found in West Bengal