Shailendra Chauhan is an Engineering, writes in Hindi, and editing Little magzeen " Dharati" . He has written four books in Hindi. Poetry Collections Nau Rupaye Bees Paise Ke Liye (1983),, Swet Patra (2002), Eashwar Kee Chaukhat par (2004), Short Stories - Nahin yah koee Kahani nahin


Emotions in exile

Kanchanjungha
The highest peak
looks from India
silver-white, radiant

Snow-covered Himalaya
wakes up with sunrise
turns gigantic
One morning I saw
the dawn from Tiger Hills

Severe waiting
The recurrence of rays
intermittently
The Sun shrouded in misty clouds
appears all of a sudden
radiates all-over the valley

Tall trees
Vast greenery
A Tibetan Refugee Camp
The hands of women knitting carpets

Children quaffing their noses
Monks praying with beads
Preacher lama
This too a tourist place
in Darjeeling

The sound of a Tibetan song
The emotions in exile
The Sun is going down
Dusk is falling
The Sun sets
in Darjeeling

In her reach

It's day-break
It's hotter under the sun

A woman with a bundle of
sticks on her head
is proceeding towards the town

Along side fields
The imprints come up
of her barefooted walk
with a confidence
that tomorrow’s bread
is in her reach

Bread that's bread only
and nothing else
No sensation, no frustration, no expiration
All assimilated in the bread

When there will be bid for sticks
Maybe people bid for
that woman also

She won't understand anything
Her total consciousness
revolves around sticks
Whatever else happening beyond
she cares a damn

Attached with every piece of stick
her imagination
has become a complete resolution
like a bundle

Translated by Balkrishna kabra from Hindi