Volume 5 | Issue 3 | Aug - Sept
2011 |
Market language
Dr. Rati Saxena
We smell life, ordinary life everywhere in the market of transactions in life. Rati shows her expertise not only in depicting lakes and love, but also the credentials of human and routine smells of life. I have a special liking for this poem
In the basket of the vegetable vendor
With onions, cucumbers and cauliflowers
Language able to get
Fresh greenness
In the smell of the fisherwoman
With her romantic walk
Language always gets
Strong smell
In the shop of the panvala
With kattha, chuna and supari
With unlimited talk
Language saves herself from drying up
When the whip of scholars hurts her
In the tight twist of language masters
Language runs towards the market
Dr. Rati Saxena - the Illustrious Editor of Krtya.in, is an eminent Hindi poet, translator and Sanskrit scholar. She has authored three collections of poems in Hindi (Maya mahathagini, ajanmi kavita ki kokh se, sapane dekhata samudra) and one each in English and Malayalam (in translation). Among the several awards she has received, the most coveted is the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation in 2000. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Indira Gandhi National Culture and Arts Fellowship, which helped her complete this path-breaking work “A seed of mind-a fresh approach to Atharvavedic study".
e-mail: ratisaxena@gmail.com
Web: http://www.kritya.in
