Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi —an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as a Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. He was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.
We present Capt. Pravin Raghuvanshi ji’s amazing poem “~ Invisible Prison… ~”. We extend our heartiest thanks to the learned author Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi Ji (who is very well conversant with Hindi, Sanskrit, English and Urdu languages) and his artwork.)
“The subtlest prisons are the ones
we build within ourselves!”
~ Invisible Prison… ~ 
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Invisible bars confine the soul
forged not of iron
but of mental arrest
Dreams are auctioned
in the marketplace of survival
freedom a fragile castle of cards
sold in the name of prosperity
The world performs its rehearsed despair
Roles carved in stealth and chicane
Scripts inked in deviousness
Every man a puppet
dangling by threads
woven from falsehood and desultory dreams
We kneel before the human gods we invented
Commerce, conformity, comfort —
our holy trinity of decay
Yet somewhere, in the marrow of silence
a pulse remembers the wind
A spark refuses to die
The spirit aches to break form
to unlearn
to unchain
to become
to erupt
to fly beyond horizons
Walls dissolve into air
chains melt into starlight
and even the idea of freedom
bows in awe before the unleashed soul
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~Pravin Raghuvanshi
Poet’s Note
“Invisible Prison” is a hymn to the human spirit —a warning, a rebellion, a revelation. The cages are not made of stone or iron but of fear, habit, and false gods. Freedom awakens when the soul recognizes the bars were never real…!
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© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
≈ Editor – Shri Hemant Bawankar/Editor (English) – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ≈
