(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 Poetry “चक्रव्यूह ” . 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.)
Rainbow hues of sprightly ‘Fishermen’ at job…
Painting: Captain Pravin Raghuwanshi
☆ चक्रव्यूह ☆
मेरे इर्द-गिर्द
कुटिलता का चक्रव्यूह
आजीवन खड़ा रहा,
सच और हौसले
की तलवार लिए
मैं द्वार बेधता रहा,
कितने द्वार बाकी
कितने खोल चुका
क्या पता….,
जीतूँगा या
खेत रहूँगा
क्या पता….,
पर इतना
निश्चित है-
जब तक
मेरा श्वास रहेगा
अभिमन्यु मेरे भीतर
वास करेगा..!
Life long,
Had the Chakravyuh
–the trap of improbity
around me,
With the sword of truth and guts
I kept chopping it off,
Knoweth not,
How many have I severed
How many more remaining
Who knows
Will I win or
lay the life
But this much is for sure
Till I am breathing,
the Abhimanyu
Will continue to dwell inside me!
© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
≈ Blog Editor – Shri Hemant Bawankar/Editor (English) – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ≈
Well expressed