# A Selection of Rabindranath Tagore’s Poems

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**Translator:** Bipul Bardhan-Roy
 **Pages:** 56 **Year of Publication:** 2011 **
Price:** HB Rs 100 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-008-6 (9789350450086)

_**About the Translator**_
 Born in 1930, Bipul Bardhan-Roy was educated in Presidency
College, Calcutta, and then at the Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur. He moved 
to England in 1960, where he completed a post-graduate diploma course and proceeded
to join Messrs Jan Brobowski and Partners, a firm of structural engineers. He became
a partner of the firm in 1965 and remained in that position till he retired in 1995.

He co-authored, with Dr. P. W. Abeles, the book, _Pre-stressed Concrete Designers’
Handbook_ and has published numerous papers on various aspects of structural engineering.

Alongside his work in engineering, Roy has always had an interest in Bengali and
English literature. Retirement gave him the opportunity to take this interest further
and this was when he began translating Tagore’s verses.

_**Teaser**_

_Poem 16_

It isn’t my prayer
 That you save me from danger, I’d rather I conquer the built-
in fear.

If mind is beset with angst and grief,
 Comforting words give little relief I’d 
rather I steer all sufferings clear.

When help is not around,
 Own strength needs to be sound; As losses pile up at every
place And Deception stares in the face. Let us not plunge into defeatism ever.

It isn’t my thought
 You rescue me as often as not, On my own I feel strong to cross
the barrier.

By lightening my burden
 Troubles will not lessen I’d rather I carry the onus without
fear.

From happy days with respectful feeling
 We will remember you by looks and bearing;
If in the wide world in a night of gloom, Hoax, tricks and bluffs begin to bloom,
Let’s not cast aspersions on you ever.

[Translation of _Bipode more raksha koro_ from _Gitanjali_]

_**Contents**_
 Acknowledgments / 8 Introduction / 9

Poems from

_Gitanjali_ / 11
 _Katha_ / 31 _Gitali_ / 37 _Chaitali_ / 38 _Naibedya_ / 39 _Parisesh_/
40 _Sesh Lekha_ / 41 _Kanika_ / 42 _Kshanika_ / 44 _Kari O Komal_ / 45 _Punascha_/
46 _Miscellaneous_ / 54