Remembering a People’s Historian: Amalendu Guha (1924–2015)

I have no desire for heaven,
Instead I go to the brewhouse,
Gamblers, drunkards, prostitutes – bringing them together
I sing of hope, sprinkling ashes from my soul’s pyre:
In flocks the phoenix flies to the sky.
(Amalendu Guha, 1960)