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 “~ The Rock… ~”. 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 Rock… ~ 
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I stand
a weathered rock
midstream
She flows
a fervent river
around me
They praise her grace
her shining movement
and call me impassive
unyielding, even frigid
They do not know
How once
she emptied into me
her storms
her anger
her unrest
Held to my chest
she wept uncontrollably
until her melancholy dissolved
She grew light
and flowed again
While I wilfully
absorbed her every surge
and stood silent…
In keeping her moving
something within me
kept drying…
She became
more river
I became
more stone
Now she sparkles
in full current
And still they say
Every river
needs
a rock…!
☆
~Pravin Raghuvanshi
© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
≈ Editor – Shri Hemant Bawankar/Editor (English) – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ≈
