(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 “गिलहरी ” . 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
पर्यावरण दिवस विशेष – गिलहरी 
गिलहरी,
फल को कुतर-कुतर,
मुँह में दबाती है बीज
फलदार वृक्ष का,
ताकती है चहुँ ओर
टुकर-टुकर..,
लम्बी दौड़ लगाती है,
पोली धरती तलाशती है,
माटी की कोख में
बीज धर आती है,
विज्ञान कहता है-
अपने असहाय भविष्य के लिए
इकट्ठा करती है बीज,
मंदबुद्धि जानवर है,
भूल जाती है..,
आदमी के हाथ,
पेड़ का धड़
सिर से अलग करने के
विशाल यंत्र लिए
आगे बढ़ते हैं,
नन्हीं गिलहरी
सामने अड़ जाती है…,
मैं जानता हूँ
असहाय भविष्य की
निर्वसन धरती
वह देख पाती है, फलतः
बार-बार बीज जुटाती है,
बार-बार दौड़ लगाती है,
बार-बार गर्भाधान कर आती है….
धरती की आँख में
उभरता है चित्र-
बौने आदमी और
आदमकद गिलहरी का..!
© संजय भारद्वाज
Nibbles at fruit incessantly…
clasps the seed in her mouth…
looks around,
runs round-and-round,
far and wide tirelessly…
looks for soft land,
finds one…digs and digs…
and…impregnates it with the seed…
Sayeth the world –
so doeth she to save her
from vagaries of times,
from the harsh winters;
we think fudgmentally…
being halfwit, she forgets the seed
when devilish man proceeds
with evil intentions
to chop the trees with monstrous machinery…
Then, little squirrel confronts
with all her might steely resolve…
But, in vain…But, I know,
How she envisions the future of mankind,
–of helplessness…
–of barrenness of land, unable to bear fruits…
Spelling doom, resulting in the…
Annihilation of human race…
She has already sensed it;
Eventually decides, to save the world…
fetches more and more seeds,
does more and more impregnations of the earth…
emerges the picture in the eyes of mother earth
of the… “Dwarf mankind”; and,
the “Man-size Squirrel”!
~Pravin
© Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
≈ Blog Editor – Shri Hemant Bawankar/Editor (English) – Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ≈
