Associated with dalit poetry right from its inception, Shri B.N.Vankar is a leading poet who continues to write till date. This is his first dalit poetry collection. In these poems . free verse poems with drama and with wit, controlling anger tells what wishes to, dalit realities and oproblems, rebellion and rejection of god with new references opens unknown regions of bhav jagat.This poet takes further the unique pattern and emotions of short poems initiated by Pravin Gadhvi.In his short poems power. Mindscape/ outcry/ ridicule/ rejection of god. / new direction and hope/ the symbols and new meanings differentiates this poet from others.
These poems tread new road and trails. As we venture deeper and deeper, new directions open before us dawning new meanings. Sometimes words, apparently simple, flat and statement like evoke full poetry and complex mindscape.
Let us see the title poem. Very simple, easily understandable stanzas gather entire sea in a tiny pot. To reach the heaven, preached by the religion based on scriptures one has to cross the Vaitarni river. The poet does not wish to cross alone instead he wishes to gather all oppressed at the gates of heaven. Rather than holding tail of the holy cow, they will construct an overbridge. As we go deeper we understand the rejection of god , scriptures, charity and stripping open the character of pretentious society. Indeed, never before any poet has rejected God and heaven so powerfully.
Passing through the collection, we see that these poems stand on the real base of two fractions of society. .The rejection is not so heavy, only the ugly and inhuman is rejected. These poems show new directions not only to dalit poetry but also to contemporary Gujarati poetry at large. They augment the flow of Gujarat dalit poetry.
Dalpat Chauhan
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