Tribute
Bhupen Hazarika (1926-2011) / J Sri Raman

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?

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