Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Saturday, 28 January 2017

FOR VADIA SCHOOL


Dinesh,

Find below three of my poems whose themes are :

 National aspirations of 58 years ago, which are still valid today
 Jawahar lal Nehru – who continues to inspire youth of India , even today
 Meghani Mama – Remembering of Mama by a 15 year old ( no doubt , a crude expression )

Should you consider it appropriate , you may want to enlarge / laminate these poems , for hanging in common areas of Vadia school

Poem about Mama : Google just cannot get the correct Gujarati spellings ! You will need to correct

Batukbhai

PS :

Should you think it might inspire the children / raise their awareness and curiosity , re ENGINEERING as a career , I can bring with me ( or courier now ) , my FINAL YEAR engineering design submission drawings ( which , you had sent to me some years back ) for a Petrol Engine

These too can be laminated and displayed somewhere !

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बदल देंगे हम
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बदल देंगे हम
सूरत सारी जहाँकि
और बनायेंगे नयी
शकल हिन्दोस्ताकी ;

तोडके पहाड़ की चटान
नापेंगे सड़क
कश्मीर से लेकर
कन्याकुमारी ,
द्वारका से नाग्भूमि ;

और बांधे बन्ध हम
ब्रह्मपुत्र से सतलज -
कृष्णा और कावेरी के
रोक देंगे हम जल,

बिजली बनादे
रौशनी छा दे ;

मजदूर को मालिक बनादे
किसान की हम भूख मिटादे  -

मरुभूमि इस भारत की में
हम हरा एक बाग़  लगा दे

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Written  /  24 Jan  1958

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O Jawahar



Write a hundred
A thousand
Ten thousand lines ,
To only find
A Picasso of his image
Enigmatic ,
Almost
Like the cosmos
Manifesting in
A thousand ,
Ten thousand ,
A million
Moods :

To sometimes
Rise above
The teeming multitudes ,
Lonesome
Lost to his own self ;
But always finding
In narrow , winding ,
Lanes of love
A way
To the hearts
Of his countrymen ;
And trying
Not to live in vain ,
This Apostle
This voice from beyond
The stellar wind ,
O Jawahar
Sayonara ,
Al Vida ,
Jai Hind !

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29 May 1964




સ્વર નો સમ્રાટ



આવ્યો એક  દિન  આવ્યો ,
આવ્યો એક  દિન  આવ્યો ,

કોનો લાડીલો આવ્યો ?
સ્વર નો સમ્રાટ ક્યાંથી આવ્યો  ?

ઝરણાં થી આવ્યો ,
સાગર થી આવ્યો ,
ધરતી નો સાદ સંભળાવિયો  ;

સૌ નો લાડકવાયો ,

શાને તે આવ્યો  ?
શું શું સાથે લેતો આવ્યો  ?

પરિમલ - પુષ્પો ની
સૌરભ ફેલાવવા ,
આવ્યો સ્વર ને રેલાવવા ;

ધરતી ના ગૂઢ ગાન ગાવા આવ્યો ,
સ્વર થી
મૃત ને જગાડવા આવ્યો  ;

જીવન જલાવી ને ,
મ્રત્યુ ઝળકાવી ને ,

તારક

અંધકાર માં સમાયો

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મેઘાણી મામા ની સ્મૃતિ માં

12 Aug 1948

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