Mitali Chakravarty

"You have done an excellent job. People who know English tell me that your translations are better than the originals," said the late Sunil Gangopadhyay to Aruna Chakravarti on her translation of his writings.

I jump from ship to ship, / fly dangling from the claws  of a huge bird in the sky / till my toes scrape mountain-tips. 

‘Shabnam’ is a dewdrop in Persian. Shabnam (1960) is the name of Syed Mujtaba Ali’s passionate love story that stretches beyond the history of nearly a century ago.

“I sing the song of equality– Of a country where fresh joy blossoms in every heart

Let me be free. Let me be free 

“Who am I? “

London, once the centre of the empire where the sun never set, dates back to prehistory with evidence of structures from Mesolithic times.

A journey that shreds castes and creeds to heal the self-esteem of a woman.