Mulaqatein

Whenever it has been impossible for a society, person, nature, or place to exist in its full glory in our times, Alok Dhanvas poems have made it possible within their scope. The ease and natural aura with which his poems reconstruct exiled and destroyed situations is not uncommon. For him, poetry exists everywhere: in water, dew, children, singers, warriors, women, and trees. Mulaqatein is his second collection of poems, arriving after a long wait. The poems included in this collection express his exuberant love for nature, life, people, and the world with even greater transparency, as well as his disagreements and criticism of the times. His poetry is, to a large extent, a reconstruction of scientific ideology facing exile in a society increasingly superstitious and suicidal. For him, nation and society are not just ideas, but concrete, tangible, living entities that can be felt. Thats why he can feel the concerns of the martyrs marching toward the gallows, and he can also recognize more of India in todays youth, speaking different languages and breaking through the feudal strongholds of cruelty. The partition of the country still pains him. He says, If India had not been divided, we would have been better poets. Repeatedly scorched by gunpowder, crossing slaughterhouses, we remained poets of irony. For readers who love Hindi poetry, this collection by their favorite poet will surely prove to be a pleasant experience.