Tum Kabhi Boodhi Mat Hona - Mukesh Anand

The last time I was reading Hindi poetry was to give my Hindi elementary exams. The poems and poets that I fairly remember are Sukh-Dukh by Sumitra Nandan Pant and Agneepath by Dr. Harivnashrai Bachchan. My favourite part in the poems sections were the Dohas that we had to actually by-heart and then vomit it out to for the exams.

Dohas are the two line couplets where in the first line, you would have the obvious written and then in the second it would be compared to the life in very simple terms. The most popular or he ones that we had tostudy were Rahim and Kabir.

All this was more of a nostalgia that brought in my book that I currently finished reading as well was present for the book launch. The book titled is "Tum Kabhi Boodhi Mat Hona" by Mukesh Anand. Where the poems are written in such simplicity that it brings out the most complex issues in subtle manner and makes you think.

What I liked in the book the most is that, after reading a stanza, momentarily use to forget the rest of the poem which us still unread and use to start aligning that whole stanza with part of my life, where they would be flashes of people, places or situations that I have been. Never had this effect earlier, after reading any book, cause you just keep on visualizing how the story would unfold, once you read prose or any fiction.

Will not deny that all the poems had that effect, but most of them did, cause there are sometimes you are unable to relate to that experience that the poet mentions, since you have never been in the situation. But most of the times, the poems are dealing with current issues that we all feel for.

Favorite section in the book is what is called Mukhdas where this section is similar to Dohas the form poetry that I love. At the book launch, I got my first autographed book my the poet himself. Always had the impression that poets are very serious, dukhi and sad. This impression was formed because the Pyassa, what else could have been. Mukesh Anand turns out to be a little different, where he accepts life in its hostility as well as in its humility and that is what it reflects even in his poems. He jokes too and sometimes has not one but two punch lines in his jokes!!

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