A GUJARIYA WALKED THROUGH THE FIELDS, FROLICKING IN HER HEART: Dr. SULABH

A GUJARIYA WALKED THROUGH THE FIELDS, FROLICKING IN HER HEART: Dr. SULABH

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RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

PATNA-----------------------Dr. Anil Sulabh, President of the Bihar Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, was in a different light today at the Akka Mahadevi Auditorium on the first day of the four-day International Literary Festival, which began today at Gyan Bhavan, Gandhi Maidan, Patna, under the auspices of the Sahitya Akademi, Delhi. He astonished and captivated the audience with his Bhojpuri songs and ghazals. He is a renowned Hindi lyricist and writer.

He began his song with these Bhojpuri lines: "A Gujariya walked through the fields, frolicking in her heart/ My beloved, the golden one, climbed on the tongue, speaking sweet, unselfish words!"

In this song, he expressed the feelings of a young village heroine, who considered being the heroine of a handsome and young farmer a matter of pride. She says, "Listen, farmer!" The farmers of my beloved country! My beloved is not illiterate, he is a BA pass/ Better yet, he should go to a faraway city and study farming/ The handsome young man will do farming on his own! Listen, traveller! The farmers of my beloved country!” While reciting a ghazal in Bhojpuri, Dr. Sulabh satirized the rapidly changing people in these changing times with these lines: “How much have you changed in the eyes of my love, my love, my love, or have you lost your temper?” He compelled the audience to open their hands by reciting a couplet from the ghazal: “Oh, the new moon has come, Sulabh has come, my love, or the moon of Puno is coming, my love of the second day.”

In this session of the poetry conference, Paramba Shri Yogmaya recited in Sanskrit, Bishan Singh “Dardi” in Dogri, Satish Vimal in Kashmiri, and Nandini Sahu in English. The session, titled “Sutras of the Heart: Northern Writers' Conference,” was chaired by senior literary figure Prof. Arun Kamal. Dr. Bhavana Shekhar moderated the session.

The eminent audience included Dr. Poonam Anand, Kumar Anupam, Prof. Ratneshwar Singh, Dr. Pushp Jamuar, Dr. Shiv Narayan, Dr. Richa Verma, Dr. Meena Kumari Parihar, Siddheshwar, Shama Kausar “Shama”, Dr. Om Prakash Jamuar, Dr. Om Prakash Pandey, Dr. Shashi Bhushan Singh, Sagarika Rai, Ranjita Singh, Krishna Ranjan Singh, Prof. Sukhit Verma, Neeta Sahay, Umesh Mishra, Dr. Manoj Govardhanpuri, Pt. Ganesh Jha, Arun Kumar Srivastava, Manorama Tiwari, Praveer Kumar Pankaj, Ujjwal Kumar, Indu Bhushan Sahay etc. were present.