Gada Tola

First the river is killed inside, then Gada Tola is erased from the map. Gada Tola means river hamlet. These poems by Rahi Doomarchir are poems of regret and pain arising from the displacement, extinction, and exile of rivers, mountains, forests, and the people who live alongside them. To become something or simply to survive, people leave their lands and head for the cities. The mountains, giving way, are left behind, as are the rivers and the Sakhua forests. Rahi often draws his poetry from the innermost core of this helplessness. For this, he has coined his own open phrase, which extracts poignant poetry from news reports, letters, and conversations. In this way, the life whose pain the poet wishes to convey to us is conveyed as it is. There are many poems like Aidel Kisku and Himbo Kujur, which become more intense line by line using this technique. You people call the organization of songs a great battle of tunes, said Rimil Tudu. Rahi also observes this aspect of life that is being forged in civilization, away from the forest, where knowledge is confined to books and books are kept in shelves. Holding a mirror to the ironies of civilization, Rahi as a poet converses with the minds of time, natural elements, trees, leaves, grass, water, children, and rivers, and stands by them in every situationWell, you are from that village, right/where there is a river beside the temple. I said to that good man from Deoghar, No, I am from that village/where there is a temple beside the river.