Samay O Bhai Samay

It is a well-known fact that poet Pash was born from the womb of a movement. He was not only a political poet in a profound sense, but also an active politician. Such a poet faces certain dangers, to avoid which, along with a realistic consciousness, a deep artistic consciousness, and even a self-struggle of art itself, is essential. Pashs poems bear witness to the constant inner struggle of a great artist, constantly examining the structure of his sensibility, his ideological commitments, and the interrelationship between them. The poems in this collection have been collected from numerous sourceseven information from the poets diary and family were used as a basis for selection. While the poems taken from books bear the poets stamp, the inclusion of works or excerpts from the diary brings to the fore a side of Pash, where an authentic reflection of the creative mind of a constantly evolving poet emerges. Pashs poetry never fails to be exemplary. He is one of those few poets whose countless lines easily resonate with readers. The following lines resonated with me, and perhaps will resonate with his countless readers as well: The shadows of worries/grew longer than the tree of age/Events of iron/have draped me like silk. Kedarnath Singh