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

Friday 6 November 1987

पहुंचा देना मेरे नाम


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वफाओ निभाने में ही
इस उम्र
पूरी होने आई  -

अपनोका बूरा
ना तुम देख शकी
न मैं  ;

कभी ये न सोचा की
मैयत के पीछे चलनेवाले
कितने खुदगर्ज़ होंगे -

बस येही सोचते रहें
की
हमारी हरकतों से
उनकी आरजू ओ को
इक हलकासा भी सदमा
ना पहोंचे  ;

जब खुल्ले ओठोसे
एक आह भी ना निकली
तब फटे हुए सिनेसे
क्या आवाज़ आयेंगी ?

जिस दिन उठाऊंगा
ज़हर का जाम ,
लोग  चीखेंगे  -

कहाँ थे वो
जब रात के अँधेरे में ,
अकेलेमे ,
पिए मैंने ग़मोके
दस हज़ार जाम ?

मेरे मुर्दे पर
इतनी महेरबानी करना
ज़मानेवालो ,

जो बहुत दिन पहेले ही मर चूका था
उसको न रोना ,
ज़मानेवालो  -

हो शके तो हर बरस
इन तवारीखो में ,

पहुंचा देना मेरे नाम
उनकी मज़ार  पर
महकते हुए फूलोकी माला

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Deliver It To Me

In keeping with loyalty

this age

Came to be completed

my bad

neither could you see

Neither am I;

never thought that

funeral procession

How selfish would they be?

just keep thinking this

of

by our actions

to their request

even a slight shock

did not reach;

when you open your mouth

not even a sigh came out

Then the torn sines

What sounds will come?

the day i pick it up

Poison Jam,

People will scream

where were they

When in the darkness of night,

alone,

I drank gamoka

Ten thousand jams?

on my dead body

to be so kind

People of the times,

who died a long time ago

Don't let him cry.

People of the times

If possible, every year

In these stories,

deliver it to me

at his grave

garland of fragrant flowers

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Translated In Google Translate - 08/03/2024