Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. Presently, he is serving as Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad is 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 an English Version of Late Kedarnath Singh’s Classical Poem यह पृथ्वी रहेगी with title “Earth will be there… ” . 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) for this beautiful translation.)
स्व केदारनाथ सिंह
☆ यह पृथ्वी रहेगी ☆
मुझे विश्वास है
यह पृथ्वी रहेगी
यदि और कहीं नहीं तो मेरी हड्डियों में
यह रहेगी जैसे पेड़ के तने में
रहते हैं दीमक
जैसे दाने में रह लेता है घुन
यह रहेगी प्रलय के बाद भी मेरे अंदर
यदि और कहीं नहीं तो मेरी जबान
और मेरी नश्वरता में
यह रहेगी
और एक सुबह मैं उठूँगा
मैं उठूँगा पृथ्वी-समेत
जल और कच्छप-समेत मैं उठूँगा
मैं उठूँगा और चल दूँगा उससे मिलने
जिससे वादा है
कि मिलूँगा।
☆ Earth will be there… ☆
I do believe this earth,
if nowhere else,
will remain in my bones
Like termites living
in a tree trunk
Like weevils living in grain
It will remain inside me
even after the holocaust…
If nowhere else
It’ll live in my tongue
and in my mortality…!
And, one fine morning,
I will wake up
with the earth
And rise up with the
water and turtle
I’ll get up and walk
to meet him
whom I have
promised to meet!
© Captain (IN) Pravin Raghuanshi, NM (Retd),
Pune
≈ Blog Editor – Shri Hemant Bawankar/Editor (English) – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ≈
