English Literature – Short Stories ☆ ‘फीनिक्स…’ श्री संजय भारद्वाज (भावानुवाद) – ‘Phoenix…’ ☆ 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 an English Version of Shri Sanjay Bhardwaj’s Hindi short story “~ फीनिक्स ~”.  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.)

श्री संजय भारद्वाज जी की मूल रचना

संजय दृष्टि – लघुकथा – फीनिक्स 

भीषण अग्निकांड में सब कुछ जलकर खाक हो गया। अच्छी बात यह रही कि जान की हानि नहीं हुई पर इमारत में रहने वाला हरेक फूट-फूटकर बिलख रहा था। किसी ने राख हाथ में लेकर कहा, ‘सब कुछ खत्म हो गया!’ किसी ने राख उछालकर कहा, ‘उद्ध्वस्त, उद्ध्वस्त!’ किसी को राख के गुबार के आगे कुछ नहीं सूझ रहा था। कोई शून्य में घूर रहा था। कोई अर्द्धमूर्च्छा में था तो कोई पूरी तरह बेहोश था।

एक लड़के ने ठंडी पड़ चुकी राख के ढेर पर अपनी अंगुली से उड़ते फीनिक्स का चित्र बनाया। समय साक्षी है कि आगे चलकर उस लड़के ने इसी जगह पर एक आलीशान इमारत बनवाई।

© संजय भारद्वाज 

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English Version by – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi

~ Phoenix ~ 

Everything was burnt to ashes in a fierce fire. The good thing was that there was no loss of life, but everyone living in the building was crying uncontrollably. Someone took the ashes in hand and said, ‘Everything is over…!’ Someone tossed the ashes and said, ‘We’re destroyed, we’re destroyed…!’ No one could see anything beyond the massive cloud of ash. Someone was staring into the void. Some were in semi-consciousness state while some were completely unconscious.

A boy drew a flying phoenix with his finger on a pile of cooled ashes. Time is witness that later that boy built a state-of-the-art majestic building at that place.

~Pravin