Captain (IN) Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
Anonymous Litterateur of social media # 202 (सोशल मीडिया के गुमनाम साहित्यकार # 202)
Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi NM—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as a Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad was involved in various Artificial 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’. He is also the English Editor for the web magazine www.e-abhivyakti.com.
Captain Raghuvanshi is also a littérateur par excellence. He is a prolific writer, poet and ‘Shayar’ himself and participates in literature fests and ‘Mushayaras’. He keeps participating in various language & literature fests, symposiums and workshops etc.
Recently, he played an active role in the ‘International Hindi Conference’ at New Delhi. He presided over the “Session Focused on Language and Translation” and also presented a research paper. The conference was organized by Delhi University in collaboration with New York University and Columbia University.
हिंदी साहित्य – आलेख ☆ अंतर्राष्ट्रीय हिंदी सम्मेलन ☆ कैप्टन प्रवीण रघुवंशी, एन एम्
In his Naval career, he was qualified to command all types of warships. He is also an aviator and a Sea Diver; and recipient of various awards including ‘Nao Sena Medal’ by the President of India, Prime Minister Awards and C-in-C Commendation. He has won many national and international awards.
He is also an IIM Ahmedabad alumnus.
His latest quest involves writing various books and translation work including over 100 Bollywood songs for various international forums as a mission for the enjoyment of the global viewers. Published various books and over 3000 poems, stories, blogs and other literary work at national and international level. Felicitated by numerous literary bodies..!
English translation of Urdu poetry couplets of Anonymous litterateur of Social Media # 202
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देख दुनिया की बेरूखी
न पूछ ये नाचीज़ कैसा है
हम बारूद पे बैठें हैं
और हर शख्स माचिस जैसा है
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Seeing the rudeness of the world
Ask me not how worthless me is coping
I’m sitting on pile of explosives
And every person is like a fuse…
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शहरों का यूँ वीरान होना
कुछ यूँ ग़ज़ब कर गया…
बरसों से पड़े गुमसुम
घरों को आबाद कर गया…
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Desolation of the cities
Did something amazing…
Repopulated the houses
Lying deserted for years…
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सारे मुल्क़ों को नाज था
अपने अपने परमाणु पर
क़ायनात बेबस हो गई
एक छोटे से कीटाणु पर..!!
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Every country greatly boasted of
Being a nuclear super power…
Entire universe was rendered
Grossly helpless by a tiny virus..!
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कितनी आसान थी ज़िन्दगी तेरी राहें
मुशकिले हम खुद ही खरीदते है
और कुछ मिल जाये तो अच्छा होता
बहुत पा लेने पे भी यही सोचते है…
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O life! How simple were your ways…
We ourselves only bought slew of difficulties
Kept craving endlessly, even after acquiring a lot,
How nice it would be if I could get something more
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© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
Pune
‘विश्वास बादल तो नहीं…’ स्व डॉ राजकुमार तिवारी ‘सुमित्र’ – Faith isn’t Cloud ☆ English Version by – Hemant Bawankar 
The Grey Lights# 58 