The Language Of Translation Poem by Asad Zaidi

The Language Of Translation



What language can be better than of translation?
It alone is the white screen on which,
like grime,
the doings of us all become starkly visible.

All crimes get committed in mother tongues,
in which all the time innocence happens to be under discussion.

There are times when in translation alone anything survives.
In our own tongue, tyranny’s voice puts sensibility to death.

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('Anuvad ki bhasha')

Translated from Hindi by Rajesh Sharma
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