Hemant Bawankar
(This poem has been cited from my book “The Variegated Life of Emotional Hearts”.)
☆ Culture and Heritage… ☆ Hemant Bawankar ☆
Today,
I remember
stories heard from grandma.
Stories of kings, queens,
princes, princesses,
fairies
and
stories of Panchtantra1.
I feel that
the heritage
is
not only stories
but
I have been given
rich heritage of culture
as a debt to me.
I have to pass on
to the next generation.
I am amazed
with our culture
our festivals,
and
our heritage.
However,
sometimes
why I am distracted
with some unanswered questions?
Why
those seven rounds
around fire
that garland
and
relationship made
due to these
changes,
the chemistry of relationship?
Why works
the telepathy
when we live
miles away even?
Why do we take fast?
Fasts of
Karwa Chauth2
or
Kaajal Teej2
and
the Vat Savitri2?
I do not know?
Today,
how much Satyawan3 is ‘Satywan’4?
and
how much Savitri3 is ‘Sati’5?
Yama6 is having
how much power?
And
where is the culture going?
Still
I’ll pass on
grandma’s heritage
her precious stories.
I will extend
her heritage
to my generation
to my next generation
in heritage.
- Panchtantra – Panchtantra is collection of five books of stories written by Pandit Vishnu Sharma in Sanskrit.
- Karwa Chauth, Kajal Teej and Vat Savitri – Name of fasts taken by married women having religious stories in the background.
- Satyawaan and Savitri – Characters of story narrated in Vana Parva in Mahabharata.
- Satyawan – The person who always speak truth.
- Sati –An ancient and obsolete Indian tradition of the immolation of a widow on her husband’s funeral pyre.
- Yama – The lord of death.
13th December 1977
© Hemant Bawankar
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सुंदर. परंपरा संस्कृती की वाहीनी कहलाती है.
बुजुर्ग इसे जतन करते है और अगली पिढी के कंधोपर उसे आगे भी प्रवाहित करने के लिये सौंप देते है.
अनगिनत कहानियां हमारी धरोहर है.
मुझे पता नहीं है मैं कहांतक सही हूं.