English Literature – Poetry ☆ Criterion… ☆ 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 Capt. Pravin Raghuvanshi ji’s amazing poem “~ Criterion… ~”.  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.) 

~ Criterion… ~ 

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On a white canvas        

colours arrive uninvited—

they spill, collide, breathe

and the silence of white

begins to shape a meaning

They call it art…and

a crowd gathers to celebrate

On a white sari falls

one stray drop—

and the same white

turns into judgment

The pallu trembles

not with wind,

but with probing eyes

Another crowd gathers—

to correct, to contain…

How paradoxical

these lines  are

—where colour is freedom

and where it becomes stigma

The canvas may bear

a thousand reckless strokes

and be called alive

but a woman must

remain unblemished white

The painter pauses—

what if the frame wore the sari

and the woman the canvas

would color still be a crime

or be seen as truth…!

(Inspired by Shri Sanjay Bhardwaj Ji’s poem मानदंड) 

☆हिन्दी साहित्य – मनन चिंतन ☆ संजय दृष्टि – मानदंड ☆ श्री संजय भारद्वाज ☆

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~Pravin Raghuvanshi

 © Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM