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| The three of us at the Padmanabha- -swami Temple in Trivandrum |
In part six of the seven part series, I write about the cultural scene in Wuerzburg, what I enjoy doing while here and also what it means to me.
In part 5, I write about the expereince of again being in Germany in spring, after a gap of a few years.
My Guru in Göttingen, Baas Terwiel's translation of six poems by Nirmalprabha Bordoloi, along with a short Introductory Note. The text that Baas wrote in 1980 to contextualize the poems is a page from the cultural history of Assam and was meant as an introduction to Assam and its rich literature, as well as to the poet Dr. Bordoloi, for foreign readers of that time. The entire text is published below with the six translated poems embedded in it, without any alteration, along with a photo of the Bordoloi family that Baas had taken then.
A version of this piece appeared in the Thumbprint Magazine:
https://thumbprintmag.in/single_post.php?id=607
[The Assamese originals of the last four poems are also given (thanks to another poet Kushal Dutta). I will be grateful if some reader can give me the originals of the first two.]
