Honoured as an English Writer

Today Kisan Degree college, Bahraich hosted a poetry reading under the banner of ‘The KDC Alumni Association and Hindi Department’. In his inaugural Address, the president of the college, Shri Jata Shanker Singh, expressed his gratitude to the poets and the audience and encouraged the participants. The principal, Mr S. P. Singh honoured a few well-known poets of the district like Shri Radha Krishna Pathik, DR Ashok Gulshan, Shri Atul Awasthi Atul and Dr Radhey Shyam Pandey. The event was very enlightening and entertaining. Dr Vivek Dixit anchored the meet and Dr Neeraj Kumar Pandey, the head of the department of Hindi, preceded his speech with a vote of thanks to the conference.
I am extremely grateful to the Association’s Secretary, Dr Vivek Dixit for inviting me to the grand poetry reading event hosted by KDC Alumni Association and Hindi Department. And at the same time I am deeply grateful to Dr Shiv Prasad Singh for honouring me as an English writer of the district. I used to be a student of English Literature at this college (1984 to 1987). When I visit the college, every wall of it, the lawn, the rooms speak to me and remind me of those golden college days.

Kajari Teej

The best devotee of God is he who forgets himself to remember Him. If you have a little notion about your own existence left in your mind, you can by no means know who the Creator is. He is the maker, the destroyer is He; He is both energy and sense; He is corporeal and also abstract; he is movement and stillness is He; He is all and all is He. Mahadev is Mahakal, the great sense of the universe and Mahadevi, the great energy that makes the universe work. Today is Kajari Teej when Mahadev and Madevi were married. It is a very pious day – let’s celebrate the marriage anniversary of the Father and the Mother of this Being that has no beginning, nor any end.

सरकार तो बदली

यहाँ सरकार तो बदली, मगर सिस्टम नहीं बदला
कमीशन वो भी खाते थे, कमीशन ये भी खाते हैं |
हैं बदले खेल के पाले, मगर टीमें नहीं बदलीं
तब म के लोग पागल थे, अब ह के लोग पागल हैं |
कभी भी काम करने से, यहाँ सत्ता नहीं मिलती
बनाते वो भी पागल थे, बनाते ये भी पागल हैं |
मरी जनता हमेशा थी, कहर जनता पे अब भी है
वो तब भी मौज करते थे, वो अब भी मौज करते हैं |
कुछ ने क़ानून को कुचला, कुछ ने क़ानून से खेला
वही सब लोग तब भी थे, वही सब लोग अब भी हैं |
ये हिन्दुस्तान की धरती, घने बादल निरखती है
लूट ले घर कोई चाहे, ये टुकड़ों पे ही बिकती है |
किसी के पास चन्दा है, कहीं वोटों की गंगा है
वेचारी बीच की जनता, न मरती है न जीती है |
कमाती है युवा जनता, उड़ाती खूब जनता है
उन्हें पप्पू की चिंता है, इन्हें टीपू की चिंता है | 

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