"Kolkata ek din kollolini tilottoma hawbe."
Jibananda Das
Calcutta shall one day be a swaying Tilottama.
Tilottama: the sum total of every iota of all the beautiful elements on earth, pieced together to every last bit. The line is from Jibanananda Das' poem "Suchetana", written in the late 1930s. The poet says that all the bloodshed and warfare and material advancement are not the last thing, and expresses hope for a transformation towards eternal truths .
3 comments:
Are you sure 'kallolini' translates as 'swaying'? I thought differently, but as I don't have a Chalantika at hand, perhaps you could look it up and let me know.
Kallolini is more suitably translated as vibrant, to my belief.
Absolutely. Swaying does not sit comfortably.
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