{"id":155,"date":"2020-10-01T21:29:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T21:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/?p=155"},"modified":"2020-10-01T21:30:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T21:30:32","slug":"roll-call-and-others-by-mujib-erom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/roll-call-and-others-by-mujib-erom\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll Call and others by Mujib Erom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>M (ujib) E (rom)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nOh My Keane Bridge<br \/>\nHawk over River Surma<br \/>\nClock of Ali Amzad<br \/>\nZalali pigeons\u2026<br \/>\nCloud flown over from Meghalaya<br \/>\nCold from Jaintha mountain\u2026<br \/>\nI have kept within me the ancient stone<br \/>\nKinfolk\u2019s hills<br \/>\nFountain for ever\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So why feel an outsider\u2014a stranger\u2013feel as if destitute in my own home!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Prostration to poet<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nOblivious<br \/>\nI too have touched<br \/>\nThe water of that Jinai river\u2026<br \/>\nDid I stand on the Baushi Bridge?<br \/>\nI cannot remember\u2026<br \/>\nI remember<br \/>\nRiver- water flowing at ankle height<br \/>\nCrematorium noon<br \/>\nMustard field<br \/>\nDazzling ankle bells\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I will go again to touch and offer water on<br \/>\nThe poet\u2019s grave\u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Roll Call<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nMujib Erom, Present? : Yes madam.<br \/>\nWho calls my name? Who is doing the roll call calling my name? I am the exam failed, seated at the very back, forever late person\u2026name not on the register- still why is my name being shouted out- why am I reminded of the roll call time after time, my being presence- raised my hand- from far very often- stretched my neck- I am alive- can you hear me- my madam teacher?<\/p>\n<p>I am an \u2018out reading\u2019 person- way back when I wronged the roll number- I also wronged the name of the registry book.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><em>Translated by Nazrul Islam Naz<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M (ujib) E (rom) Oh My Keane Bridge Hawk over River Surma Clock of Ali Amzad Zalali pigeons\u2026 Cloud flown over from Meghalaya Cold from Jaintha mountain\u2026 I have kept &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-mujib-erom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}