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 Stories “सर्व धर्म प्रार्थना ”. 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.)
English Version by – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi
~ Universal Prayer… ~
A solemn “Universal Prayer” was planned near a remote glacier. Delegates of many religions from across the world gathered there. As the journey began, the ice cracked open, and the group plunged into a deep crevasse.
Those who stood above started shouting—
“How many Hindus have fallen?”
“How many Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, Jews?”
Soon the counting stretched further—Buddhists, Jains, Taoists, Shintoists, Confucians.
Yet even that was not enough. They began dividing further—upper caste, lower caste, backward, tribal, even Aryan versus non-Aryan.
Above the crevasse, people kept counting divisions and widening the gulf of humanity.
Meanwhile, inside the crevasse, the climbers clasped each other’s hands.
They formed a human chain—
and together, they climbed out to freedom.
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~ Pravin Raghuvanshi
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श्री संजय भारद्वाज जी की मूल रचना
संजय दृष्टि – सर्व धर्म प्रार्थना
सर्व धर्म प्रार्थना का एक अनूठा आयोजन एक दुर्गम ग्लेशियर के निकट रखा गया था। विभिन्न धर्मों के देश-विदेश में बसे चुनिंदा अनुयायियों को इसमें सम्मिलित किया गया था। इन यात्रियों का दल दुर्गम हिमनद की ओर बढ़ रहा था। एकाएक हिम की सतह दरक गई और खाईनुमा गहरा गढ्ढा बन गया। दल गढ्ढे में गिर पड़ा।
हाहाकार मच गया। फिर कुछ समय के लिए यात्रियों के गढ्ढे में गिरने पर चर्चा चली। तत्पश्चात पर्वतारोहियों में हिंदू, मुसलमान, ईसाई, सिख, पारसी, यहूदी, बौद्ध, जैन, ताओ, शिंटो, कन्फ्यूशियिस्ट गिने जाने लगे।
फिर भी मन ना भरा तो विभिन्न धर्मों के यात्रियों के संप्रदाय, जातिगत वर्ग गिने जाने लगे। कुछ ने सवर्ण, दलित, अगड़ा, पिछड़ा, आदिवासी की माइक्रो काउंटिंग शुरू की तो कुछ ने मूल निवासी, आक्रमणकारी, आर्य-अनार्य की गणना भी कर डाली।
अपनी-अपनी जगह बैठे लोग मनुष्य और मनुष्य के बीच की खाई को चौड़ा करते रहे। उधर खाई में पड़े पर्वतारोहियों ने मानव शृंखला बनाई, एक दूसरे का हाथ पकड़ा और बाहर निकल आए।
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Kudos!👏
Kudos to both:
Capt. Pravin Raghuvanshi
Shri Sanjay Bharadwaj.