English Literature – Poetry ☆ – Conundrum… – ☆ Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆

(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad 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 Ministser of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.)

We present his awesome poem Conundrum…. 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 sharing this classic poem.  

☆ Conundrum…  ☆

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If one is living precariously,

Must he stop smiling due to this

One doesn’t stop building a house

due to fear of likely earthquake

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If you have resolutely sworn

not to visit my house again

Then ask these hapless tears too,

not to come into your eyes…

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O’ Enemy of love! Try saying

something adoringly and then see,

Why only your house, my dear,

I’ll leave even this world for you…

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All the nests are deserted now,

Where’ve all those birds gone?

Where’re they who won’t leave their

abode for any amount of fortune?

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