TEXT BOOK IN DREAM-2

TEXT BOOK IN DREAM-2

¼lius esa ikB~; iqLrd &2 yhyk/kj txwM+h English translation by GPBahuguna½

The father opened the schoolbag

And made him sit down near oil lamp, saying-

You fool.Now Read your lesson!

See where is Maldives, and where is Honolulu

See we live on this planet just as the Russians and

Americans do.

But I want to point out where Piparia and Pilibheet are located,

One is your birthplace and the other is your mother's birthplace

The self-contained and generous hands of his dream

Carry him away to his mother's birthplace along with its geography

The moon comes out of the textbook

And begins to borrow light for itself

He starts remembering his mother's kin, his uncle

Who is often vexed by the money lenders

Snatching away the glow of lamp

The moon goes out to hide behind the trees.

To spread its ghostly smile.

The boy goes there

Where glowworm were twinkling like thieves

The moon had receded to the mountain peak

The boy followed the moon up to mountain peaks

The moon moved further than the clouds

The boy reached beyond the clouds

But the moon disappeared into the world of darkness.

While following the moon, the boy noticed

There was nothing moonlike in the moon

An endless night is stretched there filled with hoary dreams

The wishes turned into lump of earth

There was not a single leaf, which could be plucked

And secured in the textbook

The moon did not have that color, glow and fragrance

Which a flower has in it.

In the night where the moon appeared on the crest of forest

The morning was approaching,

Many dew drops hung in suspense one by one

The textbook lay open on the moist earth where boy was sleeping

With the extinguished lamp.

Translation into English by Govind Prasad Bahuguna