Kannada original: ನಮ್ಮಂಗಳದ ಬಾವಿಗಳು (1997)
NammangaLada BaavigaLu
Poet:
S. Balu Rao
Translated into English by: S. Jayasrinivasa Rao
Wells
in our frontyards
To fall and
die
they need
not be
water-filled
wells.
If you look
at it that way
more people
die
falling into
dry wells
In my time
lots of
girls
within the
four walls of their homes
faces
hidden
behind
their saree veils
inside their
burkhas
in wells
like these sunk by their fathers and husbands
dying
without dying
living
without living
I have seen!
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