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Save Tigers in Garhwali poems Literature
Protect Tigers in Himalayan Literature
                              Protect the Tigers in the Poem of Veena Pani Joshi

                                   Bhishma Kukreti

Save the tigers is not the call of this century but  Mahabharata, Ramayana also described  the importance of population of tiger , forest and conducive environment for humanity . Indian religions as Jainism or Buddhism are based on total non violence for protecting humanity. The poets of each languages , now, are for protecting Tigers for the benefits of humanity . As Sensible poets William Blake, U Win Kyi, Idy Hope, Hari Jagnathan Bal Subramanian , Pooja Ladyluck, Tikuli, Bindya, showed their worries about diminishing the numbers of tigers , the prominent Garhwali poet and famous for her poetries for environment, nature and concerning about women -Veena Pani Joshi created a fine poem in Garhwali . In the following poems Veena Pani tells the reason for lowering numbers of tiger that is the greed of human only.
                                                            लाचार बाघ
                                    कवित्री : वीणापाणी जोशी

                                           बाघ लग्युं
                                            बस्त्युं मा
                                      ज्युंदा मनखी बूकौणू
                                      मनखी मेस्युं जंगलूँ मा
                                       बाघा बांस बूकौणू   
                                       स्यूं जंगलूँ
                                       स्यूं जीव -जन्तुं
                                       बुग्याळ तक घुळणू
                                         बाघ लाचार
                                        पापी पेटे खातिर
                                        मनखी धिक्कार
                                        अति लोभै खातिर
                                          मुंड पर
                                      मत्थी वलों कु
                                      वरद हाथ पैकी
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                      Capital Of Uttarakhand in poems of Niranjan Suyal

                                  Bhishma Kukreti

The separate Uttarakhand movement activists dreamt for the Uttarakhand capital in rural Uttarakhand but the administration did the opposite. In spite of people’s choice and verdict , the government agencies and politicians made Dehradun as capital of Uttarakhand . Garhwali poets as Narendra Singh Negi, Puran pant, Veena Pani Joshi, Virendra Panwar, Hemwati Nandan Bhatt and many created poetry aginst Dehradun being the capital of Uttarakhand . Niranjan Suyal created a fine poem against Dehradun and indirectly blames politicians and administration not going for the majority with sharp satire

 
 
                         देहरादूण
                   कवि : निरंजन  सुयाल
 
                राज ह्वेगी देहरादूण
                काज ह्वेगी देहरादूण
                ब्याळीतैं  यो डेरा छौ
                आज देहरादूण
               
               देख ह्वेगी देहरादूण
               लेख ह्वेगी देहरादूण
               बारा कि बरोबरी
              एक ह्वेगी देहरादूण
   
             हर ह्वेगे देहरादूण
              टूर ह्वेगे देहरादूण
             दिल्ली से भी जादासी
             दूर ह्वेगे देहरादूण
 
            हाम ह्वेगे देहरादूण
             लाम ह्वेगे देहरादूण
             डाम पड़े टीरी  पर
             जाम ह्वेगे देहरादूण 
 
            औळ ह्वेगे देहरादूण
           बौळ ह्वेगे देहरादूण
          देखि लंबो चौडो छौ
          गोळ ह्वेगे देहरादूण
     
           सौत ह्वेगे देहरादूण
            मौत ह्वेगे देहरादूण
           हौर क्वी नि मिली
           भौत ह्वेगे देहरादूण
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                   Inspiration and message in the poems of Narendra Singh Negi
                                     Bhishma Kukreti


               Chandra Mohan Raturi, Atma Ram Gairola, Satya Sharan Raturi, Jau Krishn Rudola Daurgadatti, Mahant Puri , Shashi Shekhra Nand Saklani Taradatt Gairola Sada nand Kukreti who initiated modern Garhwali poetry wrote many inspirational and message oriented verses. Our modern poets are not behind in creating inspirational and message oriented poems. Narendra Singh Negi is one of the contemporary poets who write fine inspirational, message oriented poems . The following is one his fine poems related to message/inspirational subjects
 
 
 
                            दैणु ह्वेजा
                         कवि : नरेन्द्र सिंह नेगी
 
                        किले छै तुर्रि फुक्यांकू सि बैठ्यूं 
                        रुणू गंगजाणू स्वचणू
                        कैन आण तेरो मुख पुंजणो
                       कैन क्वचण तेरो गिच्चा गफ्फ़ा
                       कैको बाटो  छै देखणो 
                       वूंको
                       जो तेरा कांधो मा चढी
                       पौन्छ्याँ  छन डालौं का टुक्खो
                       न रौ  तौंका सारा ,
                        न कर काची  गाणि
                       न रौ अधबाटा मा
                       चल घौर
                      घड़ेक सोच बिचार
                      वेद पुराण कर्मकांड अर ब्रह्म साधि जैन
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Umal : A Collection of Poetries of Poverty, Personal Accounts and Painful Struggle
Umal :  Exclusive Volume of Poetries Describing  Poverty , Struggle of Poors
Umal:   Experiencing the hunger, struggle for a   bread piece by a poor woman
Umal : Challenging the  God for Poverty and Inhumanly discriminations in the Earth
                              Bhishma Kukreti
              Poverty is an universal truth and human conscious poets create poverty and personal account oriented poetries as Confucius, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Dickens,David Olsen, Du Fu, Ernesto Cardenal, Frank Mc Court, Frederick Douglass, George Lamming, Gustavo Gutierrez, Julia Vinograd, Jelaluddin Rumi, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Michael Harrington, Maria Eugenia Lima, Miguel Hernandez, Mirabai, Muhammad Mahdi Mahdi al-Jawahiri, Muhammad al-Maghut, Pope Pius X, Ryokan, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell's , Wislawa Szymborska, Thich Nhat Hanh, Fred Taban, Robert Service, Robert Burns, Nissim Ezkiels, created very fine poems on poverty and struggle of poor people.
             Prem Lal Bhatt is famous Hindi poet, short story writer, critic  and novelist. However, Prem Lal Bhatt published poetries in Garhwali language too. Prem lal bhatt wrote an epic Uttarayan (unique subject)  and love oriented poems in poetry collection Kutgyali. Umal is unique in Garhwali poetic world but in the world literature too. All the poems of Umal are pertaining to poverty and experiences of poor people . We may find very rarely such volume of poetry collection in the world literature. Many Garhwali poets as one of the greatest poets of world literature Kanhaya lal Dandriyal wrote poetries on experience of poverty and poor people but even he did not wrote/publish all the poems pertaining  poverty and poor man 
    Each  poem of Umal (published in 1979) is epic and provocative poem and stir the readers about doing something for eradicating poverty too .
           Yes! Poverty is a fact and when a wealthy person who never experienced non availability reads the poems of Umal ,  he will also ask the God for creating this inhuman division among human beings that is  depriving people for food available in this earth.   .
       Umal means to come out and Umal poetry collection is a experiencing hunger, deprivation , no protection from seasonal changes for the poor .
  I a poem in this volume tells us that i is not only hunger, extreme struggle for getting a piece of brad by the poor but there is aggression from rich people to poor people , there is oppression for the poor and the poor man cant do anything against the oppressions :
 Me tain urkhyalai ki gahn si
Kwee dholi ge kwee kooti ge
      It is paradox in this world that the human beings created a peculiar system that the producer can not taste his won produce because of poverty as explained by Prem Lal Bhatt:
   yakh bhainsi palik bi kabi
 Kyau minu chhau ghyu doodh mai
  ghyu t ghyu rai byaj ma
Mayedu bi nasib ni hoi
  The poet describes the daily life of a poor man through similarity or parallel that the day of a poor man is equal to sickness and night are as painful of an widow, the morning as weeping and evening as sucide. This author did not find any such poem in Garhwali language and even in Hindi explaining poverty in such emotional wording. The poet is master of wordings and figure of speeches
 The poems of Umal prove that Prem Lal Bhatt is connoisseur of creating comparison or simile .
Such bhog ki ch pakin hisar
Bhala jog wala khana chhan
Inu kandu chubhi yeen karibi ku
Min khut bi ni alge saku
Though there is everything in this earth but due to discriminating and suppressing mentality, the poor is deprived from his fundamental right to have food, shelter and clothing.
  Whenever a poor man gets anything but the poor does not have to capability to digest it or use it :
Kakhi gas giccha gai bi ch
Ghutun magar ai bi ni ch 
  The extreme poverty brings a hopelessness , a negative thinking that poors cant not think about rising from poverty and even the poor man forgets there is something luck or path for coming out of poverty:
Ky batalu bathu you jog bee
Jab bhuligyon hitnu hi mi
Myari thand ab ya kujog ki
Chup meri hadgyun ma baithi ge

There are challenges to the God from poor that instead of creting poor men , He should have created them animals that at least they (Poor) could not experiences of deprivations on every moment of life:
 Jani kyoku you bhagwan bi
Kardu majak gareeb se
Mankhi ki surat de ki bi
Pashu hi Banyu kyau rani de
 The nature and wealthier people torture, oppress, provide torment, harass equally to poor community and both do not have any kindness towards poor people :
Ju garib ch duchy vo bui
Dhan val bansi bajanu ch
Dukhdu dukhdu rai
Yakh you sanatan chaldu aye
   Likewise, there are one hundred and fifty poems in this volume, which all are pertaining  to experiences of poor people and there is no hope that any new rule of humanity will improve the situations .When a reader reads the poems of Umal,  the readers experiences the emotions as grief, awe, detachment, remorse, fatigue, indolence, depression, agitation, anxiety, stupor, dejection, eagerness, disorder, terror, trembling, choking of voice, stunning,  etc. Prem lal Bhatt expertly describes sadness in his poetries that the wealthiest readers will also feel the pinch of poverty and its emotions .
    Prem lal Bhatt uses Garhwali proverbs, saying, symbols, images as words like-- gurmulya jog, apna bhujya bukkhan, hisarai danI, pichhnai ki rothi, palyun kutta kani ayee, ansi ma bi saunlu for creating the poems and therefore these verses are very much understandable .
    The  poet used Devprayagi dialects in his poems and used Hindi Sanskrit word very frequently in the verse of this volume.
  The one hundred fifty poems of this volume state that the histrian of world poetry will always appreciate Prem lal Bhatt for creating such fine example of sad poems be relevant to struggle , pain, helplessness, hopelessness, deprived experiences, suppressed familiarity, oppressed situations of poor people.
Umal
Garhwali Poetry collection by Prem lal Bhatt
Year of publication: 1979Ad
Published by
Krishna nagar , Delhi-110051
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Pani: A Satirical Long Poem (Khand Kavy) by Narendra Kathait
    Narendra Kathait is one of the important signatures for writing satirical Garhwali prose. The poetry collections of volumes Tup Tup and Pani prove that Kathit can create satirical verses with the same ease as prose.
     There is a proverb in rural Uttarakhand , “ pahad ka Naunyal ar Pani Pahad ka Kam ni And , Dui taul Deshund bhaji Jandan” meaning that the water of Uttarakhand and youth are not useful for Uttarakhand, both runs towards plains. Yes! This statement is  true that Ganges and Jamuna, Nayar, Hinwal rivers are there in Garhwal but Garhwalis can not use them and youth migrate in their early age in search of jobs or beter education. Water had been a major problem for Garhwalis for centuries. This is also a historical fact that our forefathers were haaving perfect knowledge of water conservation.
  Due to necessary developmental works (making motor roads etc) , the old reserviors are drying up and there is now, more and more shortage of potable water and water for irrigation in Garhwal. In such circumstances, the sensible creative can not sit idle. Narendra Kathait created fine satirical poems centering drying up of water reservoirs, dried water pipelines because of corruption in administration and political system.
   Narendra Negi took the clue from Gangavtarn and made Bhagirathi (it is said that Bhagirath brought Ganges from heaven)  the main character or hero for creating poetries of his  long poem (Khandkavy) Pani . This author call a wise thinking by Kathit  for making Bhagirath as hero of long poem Pani. Kathit created Bhagirath as a remarkable symbol as modern corrupted engineer in this long poetry.
    Kathit criticized planners, engineers, contractors, auditors, the local self governing bodies, for not taking the required care in water management in Garhwal because every body is engaged in corruption and not spending the planned money on water management in rural Garhwal.
   Beside criticizing the government agencies, contractor and political system, Kathait did  criticize the society too as they are not aware about their duties and right for correcting the system. Narendra condemns the whole society for sleeping on their past laurels and not taking stock for present and future. 
      Narendra used simple language, old symbols , proverbs, known mythological  characters , astounding imagination, day to day problems of common men in creating this long poem Pani. The wordings create humour and satire and the reader enjoys in reading the poems and at the same time Narendra Kathit becomes successful in provoking the readers too by his satire and wit.  Since, the poems are based on reality of rural Garhwal, the readers feel as the poems are their own experiences.
 Though, the poems in prose style but have amusable flow. Many dialects are  from Bangadsyun area .
  Garhwali critic Bhagwati Prasad Nautiyal states that Narendra Kathait has his own style, flow, temperament, disposition in creating Garhwali satirical poems .
Pani : Garhwali Khandkavy
By Narendra Kathit
Year of Publication 2008AD
Publisher: Abhash Yatharth C /O  Samay Saxya, Faltu Line, Dehradun
 
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