MY KASHMIRI POEM " WE LOST OUR HOME"

                                            

( Kashmir photo 1960 by CL Sharma 'Tuliki' . Sh C L Sharma was chief artist of Hindustan Times, New Delhi . He was an ace photographer.) 

To this photo I add my Kashmiri poem, 'Aessi rov oul ' or ' we lost our home'...

   ( Aessi rov oul )

" Pazaritcha pustak kis prath varaqas

taem deuut siyaah rangan hund feish

Baalav Pyath vatch raavan Sena

Basti rott akh nov Opdesh

Jangalan kun draav Janki Natha

Tchhal saet khaarikh paandav both

Nav Ramayan nav Mahabharata

Raavan Shakuni sundh atharott

Draupdi byei guv vastra haran az

Bhagwaanan deut az kanna dol

Kya paai taem kya lobh kya prov

Assi rov neab , nagar beyi oul"

( Avtar Mota)

My English translation is as under:-

( We lost our home)  

(On every page of that truthful book,

 they splashed black ink to disfigure everything.

Down came Ravana's army from the mountains

and a new preaching spread in the settlements below.

Sri Rama was driven to the jungle,

And the Pandavas were exiled by deceit.

A new Ramayana,

A new Mahabharata for us , 

when Ravana and Shakuni joined hands .

Today once again they snatched Draupadi's clothes,

But today, Sri Krishna paid no heed to her cries.

Who knows what they gained or found ? 

But we lost our home, city and our address .)

(Avtar Mota)

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