"शर्मनाक समय / मनमोहन" के अवतरणों में अंतर

कैसा शर्मनाक समय है
जीवित मित्र मिलता है
तो उससे ज़्यादा उसकी स्मृति
उपस्थित रहती है

और उस स्मृति के प्रति
बची खुची कृतज्ञता

या कभी कोई मिलता है
अपने साथ ख़ुद से लम्बी
अपनी आगामी छाया लिए

लीजिए, अब पढ़िए इस कविता के चार विभिन्न अँग्रेज़ी अनुवाद
Man Mohan
AN AWFUL TIME

What awful times these are
One meets an old friend
And what marks the occasion is
His old self

And gratitude
For the remnants of memory

And sometimes there is the one
Carrying the burden of shadows
Still in the future

(Translated from Hindi by Nalini Taneja)

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Man Mohan
DISGARECEFUL TIMES

Disgraceful times—
you meet a friend, he's
alive.
Yet more than him there is
his remembrance.

And whatsoever remains
of gratitude
for the remembrance.

Or sometimes
someone meets you,
lugging with him
his coming shadow,
taller than him.

(Translated by Rajesh Sharma )

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Manmohan
A SHAMEFUL TIME

What a shameful time
One meets a living friend
More than him, his memory
Presents itself

And towards such memory
Is one's leftover gratitude

Or does someone meet
With his future shadow
Taller than him?

(Translated by Pallavi Prasad)

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Man Mohan
TIME OF SHAME

in these shameful times
Meeting a friend who still lives
Is finding memories of him mean much more
Than his present self

And that feeling of gratefulness
Towards whatever is left of that memory

Or else one meets someone
Dragging with him
The tall shadows of his future

(Translated by Asad Zaidi)