SAWAN DESCENDED IN SAHITYA SAMMELAN, WOMEN POETS SHOWERED THE NECTAR OF RAIN AND KEPT THE LISTENERS SPELL BOUND

SAWAN DESCENDED IN SAHITYA SAMMELAN, WOMEN POETS SHOWERED THE NECTAR OF RAIN AND KEPT THE LISTENERS SPELL BOUND

4-AUG-ENG 4

RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

PATNA------------------------It was as if Sawan descended in Bihar Hindi Sahitya Sammelan on Sunday. It was raining not only outside but also inside. Clouds were raining outside and women poets were inside. Till the evening descended, the intelligent listeners kept getting drenched and enjoying the torrential rain of Kajri and Shravani songs of the women poets. Today, even the stage was dominated by women. Sawan Mahotsav Kavyatri Sammelan was organized under the chairmanship of the vice-president of the conference, Dr. Madhu Verma.

Sawan has entered my eyes/ I cannot sleep at night –– Poets dressed in various colors won the hearts of poetry lovers by singing one better than the other rain songs drenched in the nectar of love and romance. While there were applause and cheers for the songs of love and romance, there were cries of pain from the audience on the songs of separation.

The poetess conference began with the Vani-Vandana of Dr. Meena Kumari Parihar. Senior poetess Dr. Poonam Anand mesmerized the audience with these lines of separation – “Green bangles, Bindi on the forehead/ O friend, today the sleep of my eyes has flown away/ Without my beloved, friend, the path is empty/ To whom should I tell my anklets today, friend”. Famous poetess Abhilasha Kumari expressed the pain of separation in these lines – “Sawan has entered my eyes/ I am unable to sleep at night/ Then hold my hand in yours/ I am unable to sleep at night”. Poetess Rajkanta Raj won the hearts of the audience with these lines – “Sawan came to my courtyard / brought someone's memory / Sawan could not go far from the empty eyes of separation / Sawan was burning in my heart / Sawan ignited that too / my heart started dancing by singing Kajri / Sawan smiled on my lips!”

Poetess Lata Prasar invoked Sawan and said that “The talk of night, rain and monsoon should never end! You come and sit near me! Sawan, what happens in my heart with your arrival / I become like a mad woman. Sawan, rain so much that the tears of my eyes drown in your ocean!”

Dr Madhu Verma said in her presidential poetry recitation, “Dense clouds came on the thirsty earth / brought new juice of drops / youth blossomed on every leaf / the earth was thrilled with water spring / dense clouds came on the earth”. Senior poetess Dr. Pushpa Jamuar, Dr

Renu Mishra from Ara, Vibha Rani Srivastava, Sujata Mishra, Sunita Ranjan and other poets also moved the audience with their melodious poetic compositions.

While conducting the stage, the conference's organizing secretary Dr. Shalini Pandey remembered her mother and said - "Amma, remind me/ You are the monsoon of my childhood/ The monsoon of my childhood resides in my blurred eyes!"

Conference president Dr. Anil Sulabh, senior poet Acharya Vijay Gunjan, Indu Bhushan Sahay, Krishna Ranjan Singh, Praveer Kumar Pankaj, Dr. Prem Prakash, Ashwini Kaviraj, Dr. Chandrashekhar Azad, Aman Verma, Suraj Kumar Sinha, Nandan Kumar Meet, Kumari Menaka, Dolly Kumari and other literature and poetry lovers were present among the audience in the auditorium.