Bibliography
Bibliography
1 Ramayana (awaited)Ramayana: simple but tragic; this is the reason people of India love it by heart. This is the story where an elder son of Dasharatha, prince Rama meets to a ‘Rama’ who is embossed in the brain and heart of billions of Indians. It is the story where prince Rama meets Rama (who is atop of steep hills) and wounded several times in his endeavor but eventually he met. Ramayana is a graphic of fire burns on one’s body which Rama felt in his life. Here, Rama sacrificed his youth and almost his family life in his challenge to Ravana for the justice to the poor and destitute. He evolutes himself from zero to sky. And Rama transformed.
Look around you. Is there any one about to move to the forest? Maybe his/her name is not Rama. Don’t obstruct, let him go. Let he burn his youth in forest. Only then a Ramayana is penned down on papyrus. Ramayana is spread across the glove in different foreign languages and it is available in India in different Indian languages.
A question remains at the end of Ramayana: Could he ever forget Sita?
2 Daughter of the East (Krishna Katha II) (awaited)
It is second book of Krishna Katha. The first book ‘Daredevils of Yamuna’ is already in your hand. In this story, ‘east’ is used synonym of India. It is the story of an iron lady who is warrior, sensible, passionate and ready to sacrifice her life for the sake of dharma.
Her heroic story is not a simple battle story but a real fight which sprints in the brain of the contemporary India. Of course, she was among the first free women of India so she comes here as a champion of ‘free women’, champion of ‘equality and justice’ but at the same time passionate to be a ‘true human being’.
Her character is still being created so it would be a little premature to say anything more about her. Surely, Indians are well aware about her but in ‘Daughter of the East’, she will appear in an amazing hitherto unknown ‘Avtar’. It’s really a new horizon of this legendary character.
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SrijanGeet or Songs of Creation (Awaited)- In this poetic book, the story begins from evening that ends in the morning. SrijanGeet is a serious book narrated in comic way. It depicts immortality of life. Though, the atmosphere is little dark and mystic like but the message is clearly sensed. It’s like a story of this satellite which is actually one and only ‘the biggest wine shop’. The world is run by ‘fear and greed’, SrijanGeet is double edged sword to cut all the rubbish.
It’s a poetry of love and hatred, learning and preaching, gaining and losing, evolution and destruction of past, present and future and thus it slowly approaches to life. Those who are faster, they cease to be men but scientists, engineers, businessmen, glamorous persons have run, run and run without knowing that they are ill and their life style is entirely changed.
Nobody have time to explore them and one day the liquor quota of body dried up. Who will explore life other than you. Only a guru can show you the right path. You are not born for this life only. Look, you were before your birth, you will travel from birth to death, you will remain after your death. Only guru can edify you to learn how to live. Then your liquor quota of love will never vanish and guru would make you ever young.
4 Daredevils Of Yamuna (Krishna Katha I) ( 2019 )
Legendary Mathura ––once a prosperous state on the banks of the sacred Yamuna–– was ruled by Kansa, who captured his father King Ugrasen. Ugrasen was one of the greatest kings and was revered by the eighteen Yadava clans across Aryavarta. He had always followed dharma––the right path––in his rule.
The water of Yamuna was mixed with the blood of the energetic and mighty Yadavas who opposed the king for forcefully capturing the throne. Some left Mathura. Some went in exile. Some were killed. Many were miserably disappointed.
The only hope was their faith that the eighth son of imprisoned Prince Vasudev and Princess Devaki would be their saviour. The faith turned some people into daredevils.
Could this fate be fulfilled? Did Krishna, the gopa of Gokul, accept the role?
5 Kuch Padav Kuch Manzilein ( 2014 )
This book in a way seeks to bridge the distance between the previously published memoir, “Life in a Suitcase” and the upcoming novel, “House Arrest.”
For the author this novel, “Kuch Parav Kuch Manjilein” is a sort of resting place and describes it as a memorial essay.
Life, in this book, is depicted in many colors. From the short biographies of the people, past and present, whom the author holds in high esteem, to places that have left indelible imprints upon him to the struggles that each one of us confront within ourselves—the canvas is wide and untangles the life’s myriad facets.
The book is divided into three parts—Album, Bioscope and Notebook—covering the subject mentioned in the previous paragraph. In its rough 200 plus pages it covers the entire gamut of life including the various shades of grey.
At times there is this fleeting feeling that you know everything. At other times you feel wretched. But as you sieve through the words you realize that “Kuch Parav Kuch Manjilein” provides you with a solace. Life, breathing infrequently through happiness, sorrow, raga-vaag, mirror, opens up like a film’s reel.
There is much to learn from the book. And like life, it’s one long journey.
6 Agnigarbha ( 2013 )
Science fiction-poetry simply means science + fiction + poetry. According to the classic definition, this poem has two elements – science and fiction, that is, narration, which is futuristic. Other scholars believe that poetry using scientific themes in fictional themes is science fiction.
Mainstream poetry, which is based on personal life and experience, is related more to expression of feelings, thoughts and the response of human heart than science fiction.
But now this dispute is no longer a question. At present the genre of poetry includes all the descriptive topics related to fantasy, horror, speculative, barbarous stories etc.
The confrontation of the real, science and imagination of human sensation in Agnigarbha make it an excellent book of poetry. The poem Chashmidid of the first section of Agnigarbha and the long poems of the second section and – Phantom land, full moon night, another Sanjay and Udantashtari are especially noteworthy. Overall, this is the unimaginable and amazing world by the author.
7 Khol Do Nijdwar Priyatam ( 2011 )
‘Khol do nij dwar priyatam’ literally means: an immortal request of a lover to his beloved-Open the Door, My Darling. It’s an account of a unemployed youth who is still a student. Love, cheating, harsh world, search of his potential, appreciation of contemporary great person, frustration and a complicated personality. Interestingly, it is the work of my father which should not be published but on his permission, I have the courage to collect old pages, edit them and transform it in the form of a book.
8 Lal Feeta ( 2010 )
“Red Tape” is a collection of satires on the red-tapism that afflicts everyday life in India. Filled mostly with humour and at times with deep pathos it draws heavily from the author’s lifetime of experience being an intrinsic part of that gargantuan machinery called bureaucracy. The stories will delight you; the characters—even though fictional—seem to speak the voice of the multitude as they get on with untying the many knots of their life.
Even though satire is writing in a lighter vein but in the deft hands the truth it expresses touches our raw emotions unlike any other form of expression.
A word of caution; the readers should not go through the book taking it as a commentary on the rules, regulations and functioning of the government. The writer is more of an observer and does not present his version of truth and therefore it should be read purely from a literary perspective.
Coming to the book per se, it combines two of the author’s previous works; The Knot of Red Ribbon and Ten Zero Five. However, as this book developed it went on to get its own separate character as can be seen in its distinct short stories at various places.
The author also wishes convey that the stories in this book only touches the surface and should not be taken as a full-blown analysis.
9 Suitcase Me Zindagi ( 2004 )
To say that “Life in a Suitcase” is a travel memoir would be a sort of understatement. Undoubtedly, it is a travelogue of the first order. But more than that the book takes several slices from life and emerges as a history in which places, things and people constitutes its distinct layers.
In the various journeys the author takes there are villages and towns and cities, which have been painstakingly described with a deft touch of intimacy. There is Lucknow, Allahabad, Kashi, Ayodhya. Agra, Gwalior and Bhind. Moradabad, Nainital and Almora also have their own reasons for being. It also has Delhi, loved by everyone and but also getting lost in its unfathomable belly.
But the author, it seems, is more at home in Allahabad, the portrait of which he has intimately crafted. It makes frequent appearance in the narrative first, as the the center of Indian politics for more than fifty years and later as the center of hope and despair for the average North Indian youth.
Known for the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers the city, where the author had spent a significant part of his life as a hostel inmate of its famous university. In this journey there are stereotypes and assault on traditions. In the course the author’s personal experiences (aapbeeti) assumes the character of worldly experiences (jagbeeti) erasing the differences of the two worlds.
The book also gives us an insight into the author’s mind as he often delves into poetry. He writes:
“I don’t want your paradise. For I have become a human being and want to live on earth.”
10 Andhere Me Aurat ( 1998 )
Andhere mein Aurat (1998) Literally means ‘Women in Darkness’. This is the poetry book which is the collection of four previously published poetic books but the perspective was different. In a word, we can say that this is dedicated to the cause of women empowerment. Nothing is left behind for the case of women empowerment. A memorable and worth collecting.
11 Searchlight ( 1997 )
Search Light (1997)- These are miscellaneous poems with different colours, different times, different age, different odours. ‘One-one-eight’ is a train, Hathras poems are depiction of adolescent love. Nainital and other poems are the signal that the author is gradually mature, Almora and other poems are the poems dedicated to women empowerment and British atrocities in Ranikhet.
12 Seedhi Dar Seedhi ( 1996 )
Simply, an adolescent love poems narrated in poet’s loneliness. He senses incoming sound of his lover’s feet, stops for a little time but eventually departs away as time never waits. In recollecting those pious moments, he recreates, by means of his poems, the entire picture of his agonies once again. ‘Siri’ is thus a graphic of a sacred journey. It’s also a rebirth from the state of motionless.
The poet feels the sufferings of life that someone knocked (whom he knows very well) but he didn’t unbolt his door. Since it’s a personal loss, the poet thinks that the most significant duty in life is karma….. I know, I have to live tomorrow but……without you. The imageries are cozy and transparent.
The book ‘Siri’ is translated in English and Urdu languages but on the ground that his personal loss wouldn’t be exposed in other languages, the poet has forbidden to publish it.
An adolescent love poems are the essence of this poetic work. Transparent images, narration of winds, change of season, echo from the hills, useless wandering, groundless labour. Here everyone asks or listens but the lover is quite trying to ignoring the deep agonies.
13 Ardhkathanak ( 1996 )
Ardhakathanak (1996) Literal meaning is ‘the half story’. This half story is the story of Laxman and Urmila. When Laxman went to exile with his elder brother Rama and her sister-in-law Sita, Urmila remained alone in Ayodhya. In her solitude, she remembers the time of Mithila and some time she recollects the time passed in Ayodhya. She is well aware about the circumstances of Rama but was also aware about the prevailing situations in Ayodhya and Mithila. Apart from this, she was a young girl of 25 years, change of seasons and circumstances affect her. This half story is indeed a collection of soliloquies sung by a young girl.
14 Aasanka Ke Dweep ( 1994 )
Ashanka ke Dweep-1994 ( Islands of Suspicion)- This is the first poetry book of Hemant Dwivedi published from Delhi. It is based on the apprehensions of seven significant characters of the great Indian struggle MAHABHARATA. On one hand, here is egotism, ambition, injustice and on other hand protector of human dignity, fighter for a right cause. And the agony of common men, dynamics of fast running time.
The great sage and the member of Badrinath and kedarnath committees wrote a letter to the auther and denounced the narrative of author by saying that there is no such suspicion in reading the books like Mahabharata and Ramayana. What is writing in the books is the truth and what it is not writing in the book is false. Every complicate situation has a solution in the book. That is why there is no suspicion at all.
This was the traditional view point but new author even can search few points of suspicion. By way to write a book on the myth, the problems of modern days people are not ignored. So there are quarrels of tradition and modern time, search of a common men, agony of a maharathi and soldier, right cause vis-a-vis wrong cause.