What Rabindranath Tagore would have asked God

Arindam Basu
2 min readMar 19, 2019

Translation of the poem “Proshno” by Rabindranath Tagore

(Wrote this translation following the Christchuch Terrorist attack on a mosque on 15th March, 2019, that killed 50 people, those who died included children). The original bengali rendition is shown first (in the form of an image, the translation follows):

The original bengali poem, source: http://www.sobujbangladesh.com/bangla-kobita/view-bangla-kobita.php?artist=Rabindranath%20Tagore&kobita=Prosno

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Arindam Basu

I am a Medical Doctor and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury. Founder of TwinMe,