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• November 30, 2021

  The Ostrich – Based on Sudhindra Nath Dutta’s “Utpakhi”

  [What follows is an English translation/transcreation of the much quoted classic Bengali poem “utpakhi” (উটপাখী, meaning ostrich), written by Sudhindranath Dutta. He published it in his collection called “krandasi” (ক্রন্দসী, meaning the Sky and the Earth) in the Bengali year 1344, which could have been 1937 approximately, according to the Western calendar.I am putting this…