English Literature – Poetry ☆ ‘Compulsion…’ ☆ English Version by – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

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 an English Version of Ms. Indira Kislay’s Hindi poem “~ विश्व विवशता दिवस ~”.  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 and his artwork.)

~ Compulsion… ~ 

[1]

Fish can’t show

her tears

and the sea

can’t see it…

This is a helplessness..!

[2]

Whether it’s

cloudy or not

or raining or not

some frogs have to croak

This is a compulsion..!

[3]

Ther’s a nexus

between the water

and the officialdom

Some people try to

douse the forest fire

with the words only…

This also is a compulsion..!

[4]

Rats want

to bell the cat

but in the dream only

This too is a compulsion..!

[5]

Thorns may be like this 

or like that

But, under the feet

of hypocrites

They’re never laid

like the flowers…

They both have their

own compulsions..!

~Pravin