This Hindi poem is about the poet’s wish to eliminate the inner darkness first and then to light the lamp on Deepawali to remove the outer darkness.
Author: MISHRA BRAJENDRA NATH
Date of birth: 22-12-1952, Village - Sakardas Nawada, District - Gaya (Bihar) Schooling in the village school, BSc Hons (Physics) - H. D. Jain College, Arrah, M.Sc. Physics - Magadh University, Bodhgaya. In 1973-74, I took a leading role in the JP movement (a student movement which was led by Jayprakash Narayan, a sarvoday leader till then). I joined JP’s Tarun Shanti Sena, a youth wing of JP’s movement. Due to warrant issued against me, I had to go underground to avoid arrest during the Emergency in 1975. In July 1974 gave an interview and was selected by Tata Steel. I worked In Tata Steel, Jamshedpur for 16 years in the production department and 19 years in planning department. During service I kept my desire to explore new areas of knowledge towards studies and completed Engineering in Metallurgy from Indian Institute of Metals, Kolkata. After that I did Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). Technical papers were published in Tata Steel's in-house magazine. In-house training program in the department was organized under "Gyanarjan” sessions. A training guide was published for training of the new recruits in the planning department. After retirement from the service in January 2014, I have engaged myself in literary pursuits. Literary Achievements: Hindi poems published in the college magazine during student life. Poems and articles were published in newspapers published from Patna viz. Aryawarta, Indian Nation, Pradeep and Searchlight. During JP movement I used to contribute articles in 'Tarun Man', the main magazine of Tarun Shanti Sena. My articles were published frequently in the tri monthly Hindi magazine ‘Chetana’ published from Gaya. From January 2014 I am associated with ‘Rubru Dunia', a magazine published from Bhopal. I am now working on Poetry collections, novels, satires etc. A book of short stories in Hindi named "Chhanv Ka Sukh" has been published in Dec 2015 from Hind Yugm publication, Delhi My friends call me emotional, ready to help others. I can go to any extent to fight against anything being done wrongly. I have always stood for truth sometimes to the extent of damaging myself.
Who has the problem? (Part 2)
Parents came to meet their their son and daughter – in – law. Thier daughter is also with them. The aspirations of the old parents to have a family get together become upset due to some uncanny situations.
Who has the problem?
This Hindi story is depiction of the plight of the parents who plan a journey to their son’s job place. But the son at the last moment expresses his unwillingness to their presence there.
Meeting of an author with his reader
This is the Hindi story about meeting of a reader with the author of the book. How a passionate reader comes all the way to purchase an author’s book has been vividly described here.
The Morning Comes Through the Window
This Hindi poem describes the three seasons of the year very vividly. The winter and its biting effect has been described with minute details.
Sixteenth year of the century
This Hindi poem has been written to welcome sixteenth year of the century. The importance of sixteenth year has been compared with the sixteenth year attained by an adolescent girl.
TWO POEMS ON MAA DURGA
In these two poems in Hindi on Maa Durga, there is a prayer to Mother almighty to make this world free of hatred, bias and animosity. The poet also asks for the strength to make his conscience sublime
Am I an ox?
This is a Hindi satirical expression of the life cycle of every human being whose major part of his total age is spent like an ox carrying loads of responsibilities expected from him to fulfill.
Conscience
This is a Hindi story of an adivaasi lady vegetable vendor who awakened the conscience of a buyer by her very small act of giving more than what she took from him.
Apni Izzat
Written specially for Fathers’ Day falling on 21st June, this story expresses the feelings of a father who is aggrieved by the irresponsible behavior of his son while selecting his life partner.