Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad 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 his awesome poem ~ Haunting Memories… ~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 sharing this classic poem.
☆ ~Haunting Memories… ~
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Piles of decrepit old letters just
tumbled out of the closet…
Many of those old healed wounds
started bleeding once again…
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The place where my mother
would sit and wait for me…
Moment, that mound was removed
a treasure was found there…
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It’s possible that even my village
folks won’t recognize me now
In the childhood itself I left home
to accomplish my life dreams…
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O soil of my village, I owe
my very existence to you…
You only are the sole writer
of my resolute destiny…
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There’s a perennial fear
lurking in my mind that
From any house your memory
may surface to ambush me…
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~ Pravin Raghuvanshi
© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
Pune
