Some Issues (Trans.)

Let us talk of the nation’s tribulations
Talk of the colonial power impositions
Why bother with heaven’s splendors
Let us talk of the hell we possess

Saswat Pattanayak 11/30/08 Saswat Pattanayak 11/30/08

Fellow Decent Human Beings...

Shed our blood, or theirs
Lives lost are of human race
War on the East or against the West
Casualty is troubled peace…

Saswat Pattanayak 10/15/06 Saswat Pattanayak 10/15/06

Saswat Pattanayak 8/15/06 Saswat Pattanayak 8/15/06

One small world was all that we were bestowed
Bigots among us created India and Iran instead

Saswat Pattanayak 6/13/05 Saswat Pattanayak 6/13/05

I do not heed to the conscience of stars and the heaven
On my land of humanity, I have enough to shed tears on