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 “~ Between Mirrors… ~”. 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) and his artwork.)
~ Between Mirrors… ~ 
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They sprout on stages
and harvest identities
tearing the syllables of “Left”
balancing communal noise
with official secular circles
Shaking hands with power
while cursing the system
grants, publications, awards
from rebel to sycophant
they live inside mirrors
wearing borrowed faces
They rename hesitation conscience
and market silence as wisdom
screens taught them
to turn presence into spectacle
I am not stunned by them
I am unsettled by ‘us’
When did the inter-line
between politics and literature vanish
we vent rage on screens
and walk away absolved
their acts are unsurprising
our acceptance is terrifying
their performance is old
our consent is the new tragedy
time kept passing
we kept our distance
and kept applauding
cursing quietly within
and somewhere inside
the inter-line kept watching us…
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~Pravin Raghuvanshi
© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
≈ Editor – Shri Hemant Bawankar/Editor (English) – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ≈
