A young band called ‘Rain of Heart’ has come up with a sad song about bomb blasts in Assam
When the king goes down the street
Happily blowing his siren,
A hungry man on the sidewalk
Runs and hides in a dustbin.
Sleepless lies the dying city,
Shopping malls, discos and bars;
False men, false times, false love:
The birth of a hollow civilization.
O mother! O father! O my children!
In this future of sooty gunpowder,
Nothing seems to make any sense;
The foxes have invaded the borders,
The foxes have invaded the borders,
Why is Lachit's sword fast asleep?
A youth lies in a pool of blood
His beloved’s message on his mobile;
The lifeless body of someone’s sister,
The burnt remains of someone’s brother.
O mother! O father! O my children!
When the king goes down the street
Happily blowing his siren,
A hungry man on the sidewalk
Runs and hides in a dustbin.
2 comments:
Hi Prachi,
Thank you for translating the song! What does the term Lachit's sword mean...?
Love
J
Yay! New comment! Thanks a lot, J!
Lachit Borphukan was a commander in the Ahom kingdom who drove out the Mughals from Kamrup in the seventeenth century. So Lachit's sword is a symbol of heroic nationalism in Assam.
I think I should add a footnote there.
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