পাঠকের অনুরোধে......... 'জীবনানন্দ দাশের নিজস্ব অনুবাদ' "BANALATA SEN" Long I have been a wanderer of this world. Many a night My route lay across the sea of Ceylon somewhere winding to The ocean of Malay I was in the dim world of Vimvisar and Asok, and further off In the mistiness of Vidarbha At moment when life was too much a sea of sounds--- I had Banalata Sen of Natore and her wisdom I remember her hair dark as nights at Vidisha, Her face : image of Saravasti; the pilot Undone in the blue milieu of the sea Never twice sees the earth of gress be fore him. I have also seen her Banalata Sen of Natore. When day is done, no fall somewhere but of dews Dips into the dusk; the smell of the sunis gone Off the kestrel's wings. Light is yourwit now Fanning fire files that pitch the wide things around. I am ready with my stock of tales For Banalata Sen of Natore.