Saturday, April 27
CREATING CREATURES
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.
As you realize I created a new god named ngungu for the word ngungu did not exist anywhere before.
You too can create a new god or goddess this way, though you are a human.
Write ngangunga on a piece of paper. Look at the sky, see, a new god is visible.
All of you are humans. Can you now write a word with yng instead of ngu?
Yngayng. Look at the sky. A new bird is perched there. On its belly it says new. So the bird is a new one.
(Binoy Majumdar,
translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha)