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 “~ Blazing Earth ~”. 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.)
~ Blazing Earth… ~ 
When the havoc of meteors unleashed,
every star in the sky made a hue & cry
Where would the birds fly around now
when daggers keep flying across the sky…
With demons occupying every branch,
Made the lustre of the buds vanish,
How dare you could even survive…?
Thus, the buds were ordered to banish…
Showering the flaming rays is the Sun.
As if the world is kept hostage by devil
Why is that the Sun keeps raining
its fiery embers with the intent evil
The sweet lakes got transformed into
reservoirs of salt, in billions of tonnes
The sandy soil creates a discord with the
fertile land, turning it into barren ones;
Space has been shouldering the brunt of
fallen satellites and their flying garbage
Heaven and earth lose their consciousness,
in an unprecedented disgust and outrage
Planet faces the worst ever crisis of era
Alas! But there’s nothing auspicious left
As the mountain of satellite trash, turns
into a towering inferno, with sense bereft…
What will the salty ocean change now,
as the rivers too have become a salty zone
Where’ve those bouncing streams of life
giving, perennial fresh water rivers gone?
The petals of passion, sadly wither away with
the gone memories of joy and amusement;
Roaming on summits, fairies used to dance
in their sheer ecstasy and endless merriment…
When would the flames of wrathfulness go away
from the stream of unprecedented sombreness…
When would the earth turn into a serene world,
But then who’s bothered to remove the sadness..
~Pravin
© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
Pune
≈ Editor – Shri Hemant Bawankar/Editor (English) – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ≈
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