Manas Ranjan Mahapatra, Puri, 6 November 2022
I asked the common man
his name.
He kept quiet for
some moments and said,
“Dear Sir, give me some
currency notes
if you wish to do so.
There’s something called
Hunger jumping inside my belly!”
(Translated from the original Odia poem “Bhoka-1” written by Pabitra Brahmaputra Nayak)
