Bhupen Hazarika (1926-2011)
Bhupenda,
Your voice will flow on,
Throbbing with the pulse of people’s pain and people’s resistance...
Your political foray with the right-wing struck a discordant note with all who loved you.
But it’s your music that will outlive that slip, and find a permanent place in people’s struggles and people’s hearts.
Liberation salutes the immortal bard of Brahmaputra – Bhupen Hazarika!
Ganga why do you flow?
Your spread is immense,
Hearing the anguished cries of innumerable people on both banks
Yet, forever mute, O Ganga, Ganga why do you flow?
The call of history, roars:
O stream of Ganga
Turn powerless masses into powerful fighters,
Marching forward
Why don’t you?
