AWARDED !

Professor Pushpita Awasthi was awarded Padmabhushan Moturi Satyanarayan Award for the  promotion of Hindi and writing abroad by the President of India, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee on 30 May 2017. This distinguished award was announced by the Central Hindi Institute, an International level organization within the ambit of Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. The award carried Rs. Five Lacs, a citation and a shawl. 

|| I know you ||

As the flower

knows its scent

water knows its own taste

the earth knows

to drink water

and water knows

to seep into the earth.

As the flower

knows

its fruit, its seed

the winds know

the monsoon clouds

as clouds know

the thirst of the earth

words know

their meaning.

Season know their

flowers, fruits, crops

rain knows its insects

I know you.

As tendrils know the desire

of the root

seeds sence

the scent of seasons

the earth knows

the eagerness of

the seed.

As the soul knows

the desire of the body

the body knows the comfort

of the soul

I know you.

(Painting : Panorjit Palatthuam)

|| A bird's eye-view ||

A bird

doesn't speak the language
of any one country
she doesn't even want to separate
herself from the sky

there are not tears in the eyes of
a bird
because
she knows how to fly

a bird
is never crippled
because
she doesn't want to triumph
in any war

a bird doesn't name her chicks
she doesn't want them
to be divided into different creeds

a bird doesn't seize at anything
she merely flies
and only wants to fly

that's why
she doesn't collect anything
neither by day
nor by night
has no rest
or offspring
she has neither a kitchen
nor a store-room
the whole earth
is her green abode
the bird impregnates the sky with her flying
a sky-flower
a colorful, beautiful and heavenly flower.