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"Kalahandi" is perhaps the best known poem of Dr Tapan Kumar Pradhan, the Indian poet, writer and activist, and 2007 it won Kendriya Sahitya Akademi's ''Indian Literature'' Golden Jubilee Award for Poetry in 2007. The poem received critical acclaim following its publication in the journal ''Indian Literature'' in December 2007.〔''Indian Literature'', Sahitya Akademi's Bi-monthly Journal, Volume LI, No. 6, page-47. New Delhi ISSN 0019-5804.〕 == The Poem == :In the shifting shadows of lantern light :Her hollow contours become yet more pronounced :Against the pitch darkness of the impatient man :As he advances she struggles with the suffocating stench :Of empty sacks stained with kerosene smoke :Smell of hooch, of sweat, of flesh, the man's :Drunken half-smile, look of vague desire, the dark :Hollow of her dry hung elongated breasts, the dark :Gaping cleavages of paddy fields throw a mocking sneer. :''Erratic fingers, nails digging into the skin -'' :Haggard looking crows swooping down in haphazard trajectories. :''Twisting of bodies, arms clasping, unclasping'' :Emaciated naked children fight over a loaf :Of dark bread snatched from a tired dog : :silhouettes of puppets in a drollery :A woman wails by the body :Of husband crushed under a sack of relief rice :''his breath, her breath, hot, mingling together :'' :Dry leaves rustle in the mid-afternoon air. :She cambers up, indifferent, like a crab, in spasms :As the hairy-chested man prepares for a decisive thrust : :Look of tiredness in the eyes, :''ready to bite, but unable to move the underjaws.'' :Her body, breathing, lies exhausted - :A gleam of compromised content in her eyes :Having added two rupees to the forty she earned last :week by selling off her daughter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kalahandi (poem)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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