(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 Ministser of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.)

We present his awesome poem Remembrances…. 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.  

☆ Remembrances…  ☆

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As usual, my hands were

empty when I left your town,

If only I had the life left,

I’d have given that too…

*

Every nook and corner of your

city recognizes me now,

Since I’ve spent my entire

life frequenting this place…

*

This time, I really felt intrigued

while seeing off my friends…

Unexpectedly, they didn’t inflict

any wounds, as always…

*

So many travellers must have

passed through this alley…

They sure could’ve removed

the thorns from the path…

*

Agreed I was a burning stone

in the simmering hot desert…

But you, being a river, at least,

could’ve quenched my thirst..!

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