(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. Presently, he is serving as Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad is 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 an English Version of Shri Sanjay Bhardwaj’s Hindi Poem “पाखंड”. 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.)
☆ संजय दृष्टि ☆ पाखंड ☆
मुखौटों की
भीड़ से घिरा हूँ,
किसी चेहरे तक
पहुँचूँगा या नहीं
प्रश्न बन खड़ा हूँ,
मित्रता के मुखौटे में
शत्रुता छिपाए,
नेह के आवरण में
विद्वेष से झल्लाए,
शब्दों के अमृत में
गरल की मात्रा दबाए,
आत्मीयता के छद्म में
ईर्ष्या से बौखलाए,
मनुष्य मुखौटे क्यों जड़ता है,
भीतर-बाहर अंतर क्यों रखता है?
मुखौटे रचने-जड़ने में
जितना समय बिताता है
जीने के उतने ही पल
आदमी व्यर्थ गंवाता है,
श्वासोच्छवास में कलुष ने
अस्तित्व को कसैला कर रखा है,
गंगाजल-सा जीवन जियो मित्रो,
पाखंड में क्या रखा है..?
© संजय भारद्वाज
रात्रि 11.52 बजे,15.10.19
☆ Hypocrisy ☆
Surrounded by the
crowd of masks
I’m perplexingly
standing as a question,
Will I ever reach or not
the real face…
Under the mask of friendship,
hiding the impious enmity…
Under the garb of cordiality
soaring with rancour,
Under the elixir of words
hiding the vicious poison,
Why does mankind,
fueled by jealousy,
dons the masks?
Keeps the split personalities…
The time he spends in
creating and wearing masks,
That many moments of life
he loses in vain,
Wickedness in every breath
pollutes the very existence…
Friends! Keep the life
pure as Ganges water,
What is there in the hypocrisy…?
© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
≈ Blog Editor – Shri Hemant Bawankar/Editor (English) – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ≈
