Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
(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 poem “एलिअन ” . 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
☆ एलिअन ☆
मुखौटोंवाला झुंड
निरंतर नोंचता रहा
मेरा चेहरा,
दूसरी-तीसरी-चौथी
परत के भ्रम में
खींचता रहा मांस
झिल्ली-दर-झिल्ली,
मैं तड़पता रहा,
चिल्लाता रहा,
दर्द से बिलबिलाता रहा,
झुंड पर कोई असर नहीं पड़ा,
एकाएक
उसके चेहरे पर
भय नज़र आने लगा है,
समूह मुझसे
दूर जाने लगा है,
झुंड ने मुझे
घोषित कर दिया है
एलिअन,..,
उसकी मान्यता है,
मुखौटेविहीन चेहरा
धरती पर
नहीं पाया जाता।
☆ Alien ☆
Masked herd
Kept tearing off
my face,
In the delusion of
second, third, fourth
under layers
Nipping off flesh Membrane-by-membrane,
layer-by-layer…
I kept on writhing in pain,
Kept crying, Kept sobbing
in excruciating pain,
But, the herd remained unmoved
All of a sudden
fear began to appear
on their faces…
They started to run away from me
Declaring me to be
an alien,
Herd believed,
Mask less face
doesn’t even exist
on the earth..!
© Captain (IN) Pravin Raghuanshi, NM (Retd),
Pune
≈ Blog Editor – Shri Hemant Bawankar/Editor (English) – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ≈
