RE: Your Articles from your Blogsite

HRS,

Here is a suggestion . Final decision is yours

Consider dropping 2 of my contributed stories and replace these with following poems

Warm Regards,

Hemen Parekh

(M)=91 – 98,67,55,08,08

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O , Powai :



End of the road
For these non-animate
Buses and trucks
Full stop !

And yet
The very beginning of a road,
Of a career,
Of a search for happiness
-    material for most
-    spiritual for some,

To the thousands
Very very animate
Humans,

A place of work
Of worship
Of daily pilgrimage
Sacrosanct

O Powai

These people breathe
Beneath your boundless, blue canopy
An air, full of dignity
Of human labour,
And give you a soul,
These people,
Your children all

O Powai

Give you a soul
To make you come alive
With their joys and fears
And their frustrations
And their dreams.

They breathe life

In your machines,

In the glass and steel and concrete
Of your edifices,
In your asphalt roads,
In the red of your gold-mohur
And the greens of your lawns.

These people sweat
From dawn to dusk,
To deliver

No mere goods, but
Promises
Of a better tomorrow,
To the teeming millions
Of this ancient land.

Return to them,

A thousand fold

What they give you,

O Powai

Your soul.

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Written : 29  May  1970
Later published in Powai Pageant

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आओ , पकडलो हाथ

आवारपुर  उठो  ,

अभी तो बहुत लम्बी सफर बाकी हैं  
क्यूंकि 
अभी भी तुम्हारी छावं में 
बैलो की जगह  खेत में ,
 बच्चे जूते जाते हैं  !

तुम महान हो ,
तुम्हारे कंधो पर 
देश की जिम्मेवारी हैं  ! 

तुम्हे देखना है की 
तुम्हारे पुर्जे कभी बंध हो न पावे  ,
तुम्हारी मशीने 
कभी सो न जावे   !

मगर इन ऊंचाईओ से 
जिसके कंधे पर तुम खड़े हो ,
उनकी आवाज़ भी तो सुननी है  !

तुम्हारी छाव में अभी भी ,
कई  माँ ए 
बच्चे को रोटी के बदले 
कहानी सूना के सूला देती है  !

तुम्हे अभी 
लम्बी सफर तय करनी है  !

आओ , पकडलो हाथ 
बिना जिनके साथ ,
तुम अकेले चल नहीं पाओंगे  ;

तुम्हारे जो हमसफ़र है 
उन्हें छोड़के 
क्या आगे बढ़ पाओंगे  ?

सुनहरी कल के सपने 
देखने वालो , हम सब है  ;

रात भर सोनेवाले भी 
हम सब है  ;

उठो , भयी भोर 
और चल दो 
इक नयी क्षितिज की और  !

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05  March  1986  /  #

www.hemenparekh.in / Poems ( hindi )

From: Haridas Shenoy [mailto:hrshenoy1941@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 12:26 PM
To: Hemen Parekh
Subject: Re: Your Articles from your Blogsite

Dear Mr. Parekh:

Corrected attachment missing.  Please send me the same.

Thanks

HRS

HR Shenoy, 7666128505

Co-Founder, Tejora Technologies Limited, tejora.com

On 13 May 2016 at 09:06, Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:

HRS,

Sure, go ahead

I corrected a couple of spelling mistakes

Warm Regards,

Hemen Parekh

(M)=91 – 98,67,55,08,08

From: Haridas Shenoy [mailto:hrshenoy1941@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 7:27 PM
To: Hemen Parekh
Subject: Your Articles from your Blogsite

Dear Mr. Parekh:

Quite some days back you had given me permission to extract L&T Stories from your site.

At last I found some free time to download all I wanted.

I have just completed touching up your five stories.  As you may recall, I have as of now set an upper limit of 5 stories per person. 

Attached is the composite file.  Please go through, incorporate any changes you feel like and let me have your OK.

Regards

HRS

HR Shenoy, 7666128505

Co-Founder, Tejora Technologies Limited, tejora.com