Bhupen Hazarika (1926-2011)
Bhupenda,Your voice will flow on,
Throbbing with the pulse of peoples pain and peoples resistance...
Your political foray with the right-wing struck a discordant note with all who loved you.
But its your music that will outlive that slip, and find a permanent place in peoples struggles and peoples 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 dont you?
