English Literature – Poetry ☆ – My Abode… – ☆ 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 My Abode…. 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.  

☆ My Abode… ☆

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Oh, No! I can never think of leaving this house ever

But, I don’t either want to live in a dwelling this old

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Though our dignity is intact in this abode; but then,

I can never think of trading my self-esteem either

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With borrowed feet, hands and head of someone,

No! Never can I even think of increasing my height

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I’d rather starve than accepting alms from anyone

No! I don’t need any beguiled benevolence from you

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O’ Lord! If you gave eyes, then give me sights to behold,

How long can I remain staring at the same walls..!

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