Pradnya Daya Pawar (प्रज्ञा दया पवार)

दृश्यांचा ढोबळ समुद्र

Language: marathi

Translations: german (Das Meer der diffusen Bilder)

दृश्यांचा ढोबळ समुद्र

સ્ત્રી

ही चिडचिड असह्य
झोपेतल्या ग्लानीतही ओळखू यावेत
स्पर्श आवाज आकार
थांग हरवून बसलेला
हा दृश्यांचा ढोबळ समुद्र
डोळ्यांच्या झिलमिल पडद्यावर
याला कितीदा तरंगत ठेवू ?

आकस्मिक
अद्भुत
असाधारण
अपूर्व
गायब झालीय ‘अ’ची बाराखडी...

कबुल,
शाबूत ठेवावा लागतो
ढेर विश्वास
संकल्पनेवरचा, माणसांवरचा,
स्वतःवरचा सुद्धा,
पण मला एकदा तरी
अशी संहिता हवी आहे
जिथे सरकलेला असेल
केंद्रबिंदू फितरतीचा.

आहे का, आणखी एखादा दरवाजा ?
जिवंत मोकाट वाऱ्यासाठी
सताड उघडलेला !

Pradnya Daya Pawar

प्रज्ञा दया पवार

photo © Goethe-Institut / Andrea Fernandes

* 11.02.1966, India
lives in: Thane, India

Pradnya Daya Pawar born in 1966 is a leading Dalit–feminist Marathi poet, columnist and writer. Her work is political and deals squarely with caste oppression and patriarchal exploitation in Indian society. Her books on poetry includeAntastha, Utkat Jivghenya Dhagiwar, Aarpaar Layit Pranantikand Drushyancha Dhobal Samudra. She was honoured with the Birsa Munda Sanman Puraskar in 2009 and the Bodhivardhan Puraskar in 2010.

photo © Goethe-Institut / Andrea Fernandes

Her poetry is a statement of her comprehensive experience. She comes from a family that performed tamasha – an open, no-bar, no-taboo folk form. Her poetry, seeped in this tradition, defies even the framework of traditional defiance. In her very first collection entitled Antastha she tried to bring Dalit poetry out of its caste-centric limitations. Her poetry is personal and hence political. It is that of a Dalit Panther, a she-panther for whom the jungle with its wild abandon is also poetry.

She teaches in the Marathi department of Dnyansadhana College, Thane.

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