translate the lyrics of the Bengali song "Karar Oi Louho Kopat" to English

Here's a translation we found courtesy of Sajed Kamal - Kazi Nazrul Islam, shared via INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF NAZRUL:

Those Iron Gates of Prison [Karar oi louho kopat]

Destroy those iron gates of prison,

demolisth the blood-stained stony altars

of chain worshipping!

O youthful Shiva,

blow your horn of universal cataclysm!

Let the flag of destruction

rise amidst the rubble of prison walls

of the East!!

Play the music of the festival of Shiva!

Who's the master? Who's the king?

Who is it

that punishes the truth of freedom?

Ha! Ha! Ha! It's a laugh--

God is to be hanged?

Rumor-monger--

who teaches this pitiful "trugh"?

O you forgetful Madman --

shake -- shake the prisons

with your forceful cataclysmic pulls!

Send your Haidari call,

play your war-drums--

call Death

towards Life!

There, the Baishakhi storm is dancing--

are you just going to sit through your days?

Let's see

you shake up the foundation

of that terrible prison.

Kick - break the locks!

All those prisons--

set them on fire,

burn them down, uproot them forever!

Bengali is an eastern Indo-Aryan language with around 300 million speakers mainly in Bangladesh, and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and South Assam. Bengali is the national and official language of Bangladesh, and one of the official languages in India. It is also spoken in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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Tuesday, August 22 2017
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