POETRY
Our Hands
—POEM by Jayant Parmar
(Translated from Gujarati by Dr. G.K.Vankar
You poured
Insults,
like molten lead in our ears.
The stone targets our head
and the cactus hedge
emerges from our chests,
in our bones sea of acid.
O great foes,
shoot us,
our hands
are bound
on our backs.
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(Translated from GUJARATI by Dr. G.K.Vankar)
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Jayant Parmar
Born on 11 October 1954, a well-known Indian Urdu language poet, artist and calligrapher, writes both in Urdu and Gujarati. Jayant Parmar is known for raising Dalit issues in his poetry. Parmar was born in a poor family. Since he had developed an appreciation and taste for Urdu poetry while living in the walled city area of Ahmadabad, he taught himself Urdu from a language learning guide at the age 30 after.
Jayant Parmar has published seven collections of Urdu poems: “Aur” (1999), “Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein” (2006), “Maanind” (2007), “Antraal” (2010), “Nazm Yaani” (2013), “Giacometti Ke Sapne”, (2016) and “Nuqta Aur Doosri Nazmein” (2019). He is recipient of Sahitya Academi Award, 2009 for his book “Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein”, Bhasha Bharti Samman, 2006 for “Aur”, Gujarat Sahitya Academi Award, Bhartiya Dalit Sahitya Academi (2002) and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jeevan Gaurav Puraskaar (2020) etc. His works has been translated into Hindi, English, Punjabi, Assami, Telugu, Bangla, Kashmiri, Tamil, Kannada, Malyalam, Nepali, Marathi and also in various other languages like Slovenian and Spanish.
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Dr. G. K. Vankar
Born in 1953, Dr. G. K. Vankar is a Professor of Psychiatry at a Medical College in Gujarat. He is translator and blogger. He has translated extensively Gujarati Dalit Literature .He has also translated several poems and short stories from other Indian languages, especially Dalit Literature, in Gujarati. Dr. G. K. Vankar has published translations Jayant Parmar’s Urdu poetry in English titled ‘”Inkpot and other poems”, 2011.
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Beautiful poem