Renuka

Dinkar is a poet who follows his own path, free from constraints and conventions. Therefore, he has also been identified as a poet of Romanticism. This is clearly reflected in Renuka. Dinkars enthusiasm in the first poem of the collection, Mangal Aahwan, reveals how imbued he was with national consciousness - Strong impulses of emotions/Creating a stir in the heart. Instead of being disturbed by the inequality and oppression in dependent India, he appears filled with anger, to express which he also acquires cultural consciousness through past pride - Priyadarshan in the throat of history/Let it resonate today and become poetry/On the screen of the present/Let the past become possible. In this series, in poems like From the Ganga of Pataliputra, Bodhisattva, Mithila, Tandava etc., he remembers Chandragupta, Ashoka, Buddha and Vidyapati and mythical characters - Shiva, Ganga, Ram, Krishna - in an attractive language style. He praises Himalaya, but in order to make the Himalayas, in meditation, a symbol of sublime consciousness for the people, he also does not fail to say, Abandon silence and roar, O ascetic! Today is not the time for penance, but the sound of the conch shell of a new age is awakening you, awaken, my giant! Pardesi is a composition of a different temperament in the collection. Instead of a masculine voice, the fear of public condemnation is deeply expressed in it. Similarly, there are poems like Jagaran, Nirjharini, Koyal, Sharat in Mithila, and Aama-Sandhya, which do not contain revolutionary sentiments, but rather the beauty of nature, life, and love. These lines from Geetvasini are worth seeing: Two precious serpents will sway on the moon/I will offer you my cheek to kiss, opening my two locks. Despite their varied voices, the poems in Renuka span a vast canvas in their national thinking and sensibility. Without this collection, a proper assessment of not only Dinkar but also his era is impossible.