English Literature – Poetry ☆ – Corporal Mutilation… – ☆ 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 ~Corporal Mutilation…~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.  

☆ Corporal Mutilation…  ☆

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When the branches were laden with the fruits,

Alas! There were no stones to pluck…

When the stones were found lying around,

there were no fruits left on the trees..!

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They kept throwing the mired scum

at their very own honourable people…

Wasn’t there any amicable solution

to the matter of impassioned heart..?

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Abrogation of execution of an innocent

was not in the control of the wise ones…

As the frenzied mob had taken over the

proceedings with the utmost disregard..!

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What an excruciating pain kept

pouring down all night long…

Never had this much of agonizing dust

gathered on my face, even in the past..!

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