In this one, the poet is in conversation with Dev, the Lord....! Comparing the perfections and certainty in the heavens abode, with imperfections, changes, uncertainty in real life... She says... Instead of striving for perfections Let us embrace letting grow and progress as is, without refinement. The beauty of life is in happiness and sadness, true happiness is in change - in Parivartan The poet literally says.... प्रेम का महत्त्व तो वियोग से, बिछड़ने से ही मालूम होता है। जिसने जलना नहीं जाना,...
Mar 27, 2022•1 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Gopaldas "Neeraj" is my favorite poet because of the Feeling in this poem, which is also central to many of his poems that absolutely made me. My first season was Neeraj and after pretty long I am adding an episode to it, yet again the same EMOTION. The emotion of relentless aspiration, the emotion of moving forward no matter what, the emotion of making way with a smile 😀. When one embarks on journey to a greater purpose, ones efforts must exhibit this dedication. I am not be there, but Neeraj ...
Mar 22, 2022•56 sec•Season 1Ep. 16
Shoonya is literally zero in the Indian numbering system, the place from which all things begin. It is also a term in Buddhist thought, usually translated as emptiness or nothingness. In Sanskrit, one of its primary meanings is empty space or void. This Poem by Zakir Khan, very much written in the now, sways through one's mental state during an extreme failure. For a person who is constantly building within self, knows that the emptiness, the SHOONYA is not where it ends (as bhawnaayein ab khatm...
Feb 08, 2022•1 min•Season 3Ep. 6
This poem written in the present, reads my heart out...! The social conditioning in our upbringing is so pervasive that even the most capable of females still faces the dilemma to default permission seeking from their male counterpart. And here Anamika takes the blame on self, and says my favorite line "मेरी ज़ंजीर की ताकत तैय करनेवाले तुम नहीं में खुद थी ", and finally not arguing but putting the point, "मुझे किसी ऐसी डोर से न बांधना जिसकी पकड़ तुम्हारे हाथ में हो, बल्कि ऐसी डोर से बांधना जिसकी उ...
Dec 18, 2021•5 min•Season 3Ep. 5
So self explanatory is this that, there is no need to add a word. Yet, just the underlying idea is - Hypocrisy, such a universal human trait. Everyone is either externally or internally hit by it. What is dangerous though is internal hypocrisy. And thence by favorite line is: असमंजस मे निर्विकार हो बैठे ज्यों गीता के उपदेश हमी पर बीते हैं Let's just introspect.
Jul 03, 2021•2 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Samvedna, Sympathy....an understanding of other people's feelings. This poem could sound hopeless, insensitive towards genuinely compassionate people. But hey is there any one who is so compassionate? who after hearing your pain, won't feel thankful for their painlessness? and so the poet says: " Who sympathizes with other's pain, is simply hiding the joy of his own painlessness It's curse of world that one's sorrow is another's happiness" This is the path indeed where every traveler is alone. ह...
Jun 06, 2021•2 min•Season 1Ep. 14
The most dangerous thing is the demise of our dreams. Isn't it quite an irony that the dead are fearing the death? The poet creates a visual of the most horrifying situations and then says.... All of that may be bad but not as dangerous as the death of dreams. Not as dangerous as becoming numb to what's happening around, and not raising voice. However my favourite line is.... सबसे ख़तरनाक वो घड़ी होती है आपकी कलाई पर चलती हुई भी जो आपकी नज़र में रुकी होती है. This one shakes my conscience every ...
Apr 11, 2021•3 min•Season 1Ep. 13
ધ્રુવ ભટ્ટ ... ના સુંદર પુસ્તક માંથી આ થોડી ગીત કવિતા ની વાત .....in these many small segments he says... Only choosing words and rhyming them is not poetry....poetry has no ownership.... Poetry is a reflection... Poetry is Introspection.... Poetry to me is an interaction, with the self... For the one who writes, for the one who listens, for the one who recites and for the one who connects😀
Mar 07, 2021•5 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Success and Failures are meare journey. Having the courage to continue after failure is important, but what's even more important is continuing after success. In this beautiful poem is the mention of the final destination GHAR - Home, but who knows where the final home or what it is? Till the Answers are found, "Musafirana" hi kya bura hai? Enjoy the journey, enjoy the poem😀... Wonder my dear wanderer...!
Feb 21, 2021•3 min•Season 3Ep. 4
In these times where every expression has unlimited possibilities of being heard through the many social media forms.... Writing has become more common and less compassion. In this recitation is my answer to what is literature and what is merely expression. Rakesh Tiwari gives me the answer to when to write - its when its not Creative Dissatisfaction but only and only Compassion...! 😀
Feb 07, 2021•4 min•Season 3Ep. 3
This one describes beautifully the state of mind of the one who is very well aware of herself... Who is ruffled yet composed. Sometimes visibly so yet most of the time building up the within. One is ones best listener, best guide. Its just about time, when the lost faith takes time to rebuild the strong within. Faith is right there.
Jan 09, 2021•5 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Success or Failures, everything is but a journey & not destination. But how to evaluate this? Rather why to evaluate these? If at all one wants to measure success let these be the parameters. It's always about whether a learning is implemented? Whether there is any improvement from the past performance ? Whether have I grown as a person? If Failures motivate you to work harder, you have learnt, you have grown, you are a WINNER...!
Sep 14, 2020•2 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Faith & Optimism is what this poem means to me. The most precious gifts of nature are owned by none ! And one such gift is the light from the Sun...! Always and Forever..! It is within one's self. It only requires a spark and the lamp will aflame. What's more? There is no more darkness. Where there is Faith, there are efforts, THERE'S LIGHT.😀
Jul 26, 2020•3 min•Season 1Ep. 11
This one is my favourite since some years now... ! Bahut Hi Sukoon den hai yeh Kavita.... Aisi bina wajhe ki udaasi mein koi extreme nahin hota... Jab hum witness kar sakte hai khud apne andar ke bhaav ko... Aur sabhi bhaav ke saath bhi Balance ho, aise samay mein ye kavita mere mann mein baar baar padhti hoon.
Jul 19, 2020•2 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Truth pinches the liars howsoever politely expressed. I have invited enough struggles, arguments, frustration by being honest and clear in expression. But that is more like an involuntary action for me, can’t help it. So I like this poem. The underlying meaning in this poem - in a decision making situation, who do you support? The ones who wait for friendly stars, or ones who take charge of their life by action? Many such questions are answered in this poem.
May 05, 2020•3 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Holding on to the loss and resisting to move forward comes to us so effortlessly. Yes it takes a lot to move on and let the loss be history. The poet here rightly says in the end "wo kachcha peene wala hai jiski mamta ghat pyalo par". We dont live clinging on to the material... Real love and life is in the moments we have felt alive... The love for intoxication the love for life....!
Apr 28, 2020•2 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Dinkar says the story of Karn from Mahabharat in this Mahakavya. But his style in writing unfailingly amplifies the life lessons for a person who is warrior in life... With every challenge how one must build ones own self. How every strength is within us and only when we see it the world will benefit from it. These are just a few I shared... But once you listen to it I am sure you will find your own message from this excrepet.
Apr 24, 2020•8 min•Season 2Ep. 1
I have read this poem in the different phases of my life and have related to it every time. As a child myself, as a grown up and as a mother. But today as I recite it... Just 2 days before my daughter's birthday... I am feeling this strange loss... Loss of what I had lost... Even she will lose it. Oh what can I do to retain her childhood?
Apr 21, 2020•4 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Failing in exam or in Business.. Challenges in relationships or with ones own self? The journey of life can either be just an evaluation or beyond it... ? Let it be beyond all evaluations... Just take it as it comes... It's not the end of the world. This is the message in this recital.
Apr 16, 2020•2 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In my very formative years I have both understood and felt the strength of literature. How poets and writers had added fuel to the Indian Freedom Struggle is not something anyone is unaware of. However every such literature is timeless, so is this poem.
Apr 14, 2020•2 min•Season 1Ep. 6
The way we have a go to person in our friends and family to whom we rush to every time we are low, this poem is my go to poem. It has given the strength I have needed every time. I wish to share this source of strength.
Apr 11, 2020•3 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This poem turned into song may sound like it's reflecting hopelessness. However, there in underlines the message of realize and live your DREAMS before it's too late.
Apr 09, 2020•3 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This is just being easy..Being "mast". Being Happy with one own self. Often it sounds like justification. But that too doesn't come easily. In this he shares the things to value, above all love for self. In the fakira state, the realities of life in this simple yet powerful poem😀.
Apr 06, 2020•2 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Every low phase needs a way out. In this poem Neeraj simply says .. Go through everything with a SMILE! I have taken strength from this one always. I wish to share this source of strength with all.
Apr 01, 2020•3 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Poetry Heals: It demystfies purpose, gives strength, inspires, heals everything. In recitation after recitation... It changes you and your being.
Mar 30, 2020•2 min•Season 1Ep. 1
