100 Poems from Bangladesh (Edition Delta, Stuttgart 2017)

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BROTHER, HEY BROTHER! Hold up the decrepit scales

and wait Brother, hey my Brother! ill-fated weights are we. Stretch out your backbone please, pull it hard. Without a spine you will receive some state award. Times and again the nation lost its honour, Brother, hey Brother! Justice said good-bye All is left is embarrassed judges.* Translated by Shuborna Chowdhury *Embarrassed judges : The trial of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, slain on 15 August 1975, was delayed as appellate judges felt "embarrassed" to hear the case.

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