‘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
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Now, this number does not exist
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New Delhi, Dec 11 : THIS NUMBER DOES NOT EXIST
This number does not exist.
Wherever I go whichever number I dial
At the other end a strange voice says
This number does not exist yeh number maujood nahin hai
Not too long ago at this number I used to reach people
Who said: of course we recognize you
There is space for you in this universe
(From Sudeep Sen s translation of Manglesh Dabral s Yeh Number Mojud Nahin
With the news of one of India s best known Hindi poets, Manglesh Dabral s death coming in on Wednesday evening, when he breathed his last at AIIMS after Covid related complications, it was clear that Indian poetry had lost a reluctant star.
Jansatta and
Pratipaksha, among others) and translator, Dabral also had most of his poems translated into various languages. His language continued to remain simple, accessible withholding current themes. In an interview with
The Indian Express, Dabral openly derided the use of technology, expressing concerns about the way it impacts memories. “I am against consumerism and technology. I don’t oppose technology but its greatest repercussion has been on memory. Memory is crucial for imagination, and technology and consumerism destroy it. How many people remember what mobile phone they were using two years ago, or what clothes they bought last year? Along with memory, even history is being erased by technology and, perhaps, only language and literature can counter that.” He infused his apprehension in his poetry, using English words like the internet or mobile phones to impede tampering of their impact.
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