[Reader-list] [Poem of the week] Ram Setu

[TaraPrakash]

Thanks Vivek. I too have a poem to share.
In the light of the VHP procession concerning Ram Setu, last week, I was 
reminded of a poem by Hindi poet Ajneya, pen name for Sachchidananda 
Hirananda Vatsyayan which I think is *the Hindi poem of the modern age of 
Hindi poetry. The poem is about 40 years old, however, like a true classic 
it is relevant for all ages and places.
But before transliterating the poem I would like to narrate what I heard 
from some of the VHP activists who had come to Delhi to participate in the 
protest. On being asked by a correspondent why the Setu should not be 
broken, one of them said, and I am translating here "It is very useful for 
the people of India. They walk on it to reach Sri Lanka." On being asked who 
is planning to break it another said, "America and specially NASA is after 
it." Who made it? one replied, "Sri Rama."

Following is the poem:

Jo pul banaaenge
Vo piche rah jaaenge.
Paar utaregi sena
Vijayi honge Ram
Mara jaaega Ravan
Jo nirmata the
Bandar kahlaange.
(Let me dare translate the poem now.)
Those who make the bridge,
Will behind fall,
The army will go across
Ram will be victorious
Ravan will fall.
The constructors of the bridge
Will, the world "monkeys" call.
Regards
Tara Prakash
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vivek Narayanan" <vivek at sarai.net>
To: <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:20 AM
Subject: [Reader-list] [Fwd: [Poem of the week] BELIEFS]


> Well...  In spite of all the darkness now, and the darkness to come-- 
> happy new year, happy festive season.
>
> Vivek
>
> BELIEFS
>
>
> /                             after Kristin Dimitrova/
>
> //
>
> Old people say that whenever
> someone lights a cigarette from a candle
> a sailor dies.
>
> Among sailors, I suppose,
> there is a belief that when they shave
> in a odd direction, an academic dies.
>
> So they try not to shave.
> The point is that we think
> About each other.
>
>
> © 2005, Gregory O'Donoghue
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>
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