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Life Arts    H4'ed 4/25/18

Rabindranath Tagore's Hero Poems Part I

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Rush forth in free flow?

Did a million birds break free from caged hearts

And taking flight in flocks, rush homeward bound?

The valiant ones anointed their mothers'

Foreheads with their blood sacrifice

By the shoreline of the five rivers.

Mughals and Sikhs, in a life-or-death battle

Each gripped the other's throat

In a deathly embrace.

As a bloodied raptor, reeling from venom

Engages in a deadly struggle unto death

With a fanged, hooded serpent.

In vigorous battle that day, Hail to Guruji!

Roared the Sikh warriors

Even as maniacal Mughals athirst for blood

Chanted their battle cry. Presently, at the Fortress

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Monish R. Chatterjee received the B.Tech. (Hons) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from I.I.T., Kharagpur, India, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the University of Iowa, (more...)
 

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