Phir Kabhi Aana (Hindi Edition)

This collection by senior Odia poet Sitakant Mahapatra is a narrative of lifes persistence against death and the diverse possibilities of a life rooted in nature. The way he gives voice to the silent voice of the will to live in these poems, capturing the silent moments of life in language, is remarkable. Whether its a friendly conversation with Yamaraj, asking him to visit again, or addressing the tree-hating Yamadutas (the messengers of death) in the Vriksha Samhita poems, and other poems in the collection, Sitakant chants like a mantra the desire for the survival of a united world composed of humans and nature. I will not be here tomorrow/The sound of the well will be heard/It will be her little smile/There will be flowers, there will be bees/God will still be hopeful seeing that childs smile. These lines, which treasure the possibilities of life above death, appear like an auspicious invitation from a great poet to the times ahead. In another poem, he says: How happily the lawn grass waits to kiss two tiny feet, to fall over, to be recognized by a variety of colors, to be freed from the confines of the film, to be released from the confines of the film. But he doesnt consider life on earth a gift from some other world. He highlights humanitys fighting spirit and its unwavering desire to create, protect, and expand its own world as a power independent of divine power. Just as he tells Yama to turn back, he also tells the gods that if they incarnate, they must be coming because of some problem of their own, not for our salvation. Dazzled by the dazzling brilliance of heaven, the long-bodied, divinely shaped gods, impatient with it, flee among us into the darkness of the earth. Let them be your companions.