Poetry at Sangam

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Chinmayee Hansdah-Marandi

Chinmayee Hansdah-Marandi was born in 1981 in Rairangpur (Odisha) and lives in Jhargram (West Bengal). She is a polyglot who can communicate in five languages: Santali, Odia, English, Hindi, and Bengali. She has to her credit five books of poetry in Santali: Potkoj (Bloom, 2005), Amon (Grow, 2013), Baha Rege Bhanwar Mone (The Bumblebee Has His Mind On The Flower, 2022), Bale (Infant, 2022), and Poha (Sapling, 2022). At the time this bio note was being written, Chinmayee Hansdah-Marandi was in Delhi, working with the NCERT in translating a Hindi book into Santali.

 

Poems by Chinmayee Hansdah-Marandi translated by Sowvendra Shekhar Hansda

EDEL

ICHAG BAHA

KASI BAHA

 

Audio recording of EDEL

Audio recording of ICHAG BAHA

Audio recording of KASI BAHA