Waqt Zaroorat

The poems in Waqt Zaroorat embody the sensitivity that makes India a beautiful country. Its people, their collectiveness, and their individualityall together create a shared future; but today, clouds of crisis are looming over this shared beauty. Through his poems, Avinash Mishra warns that a collective mentality of hatred is developing. A mind filled with poetry, love, and harmony is the antidote to this hatred. The poems in this collection accept this responsibility. Without weakening the essence of poetry, these poems carry the touch of time with a penetrating literary sensitivity. Every pulse of time is present here, but it does not come with the mere anxiety of being recorded; rather, it comes with the fundamental prerequisite of poetry: words and human beauty. This collection features a variety of unfortunate peoplethose devoid of love, deprived of a full meal, and, like a burning tree, smoldering with hatred. Avinashs poet extends a hand of friendship and goodwill to them through his poetry. The twenty-first century is filled with noise; the past two decades have seen a rapid erosion of language, sensibility, and collectivity. In such a context, these poems leave us helpless, saying, Lookthis is what weve all become. These are our sorrows, look at them... Waqt Zaroorat carries a note of sorrow and a yearning for freedom from it from beginning to end. Many of the poems in this collection point to the gap where a persons memory weakens them instead of strengthening them, and in the pursuit of a language that is understandable to all, the writer loses their language. This collection is also memorable for the purity of its language. Ramashankar Singh