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‘Manglesh Dabral was not free of his past’
Manglesh Dabral hailed from Kafalpaani village in Tehri Garhwal. No wonder, mountains have a larger-than-life presence in his poems, which talk about local legends, mother, father, grandfather, rains and dreams. Doms also live in the mountains but they never drift into his poetry. How could they have? He had no connection with them. Kanwal Bharti re-reads Manglesh Dabral
Those other than Dalit poets also figure in my personal collection of anthologies, and I find their work quite impressive. They include Pash, Gadar, Gorakh Pande, Varavara Rao, Gauhar Raza, Bhagwat Rawat, Alok Dhanwa and Anshu Malviya. Their expressions are distinct from the others. I have more than 100 collections of poems of four-dozen-odd such poets. Some of them are famous names such as Ashok Vajpayee, Kedarnath Singh, Arun Kamal, Kumar Vikal and Ritu Raj. But I am not adequately intellectually equipped to understand their poetry. Manglesh Dabral’s collection of
Protests against Mann Ki Baat in Ranchi In one instance, a group of writers and artists gathered to express their solidarity with the protesting farmers and demanding withdrawal of the farm laws
Ranchi witnessed two back-to-back protests of different kind at the local Albert Ekka Chowk on Sunday.
In the first, a group of people responded to the call given by All India Kisan Sabha and different trade unions and beat plates and canisters to protest against Prime Minister’s Mann Ki Baat programme and to urge people not to listen to him.
In the other, a group of writers and artists gathered there to express their solidarity with the protesting farmers and demanding withdrawal of the farm laws.
Manglesh Dabral’s poems distilled the sorrows without surrendering hope
Ashutosh Bhardwaj writes: Politics takes refuge in a leader; poetry is a celebration of people. Dabral’s political poetry is not about grand revolutions, but the muted sorrows of the common woman and man. Updated: December 11, 2020 9:17:54 am
As the literary editor of Jansatta, Dabral pruned raw copies into finished pieces.
While literary fiction can still occasionally afford certitudes, poetry traverses a vulnerable lane. It rarely attempts to offer opinions, as certain apprehensions about its own gaze never take its leave.
Manglesh Dabral, who died on Wednesday, was a poet of delicate doubts and anxious assertions. He began his Sahitya Akademi award acceptance speech, Kavi Ka Akelapan (The Loneliness of a Poet), with a reference to Pablo Neruda. The Chilean poet had begun questioning his art upon learning that a man had committed suicide after reading some of his m