Binoy Majumdar

Jul 18, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Uttaran Das Gupta |Chantal Spitz |Binoy Majumdar |Lia Galvan Lisker

In a new anthology titled Again I Hear These Waters, poet and translator Shalim M. Hussain has collected poetry and songs from the Miyah community of Assam, a state in the northeast of India. The community is formed by the descendants of Bengal-origin Muslims living in the low-lying river islands (called “char”) of the Brahmaputra River and growing rice and jute for their livelihoods.

Apr 8, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Binoy Majumdar |Patryk Pufelski |Uttaran Das Gupta |Alexander Aguayo

In these poems, written during a stay in a psychiatric hospital, Bengali poet Binoy Majumdar gives instructions for creating new birds, fruit, and trees. What I’m about to write, readers, is hard to write in verse. So I will write in prose. You are a sound god yourself you have seen how sound gods look. Say your name is Arindam. You have seen how the word Arindam looks. A long time ago I created the word ngungu the same way, the word was printed too.