Description

A definitive volume of poetry chosen for “Mangalesh Samman 2025”

He is Chittaprosad of Hindi poetry… his poetry of the last two decades is infused with a sense of loss that will stick in the readers’ memory forever. —Bharat Bhooshan Tiwari
He eschews irony, bitterness, yet manages to express the hard realities with the gentle poetic force. —Amitabh
Decades and centuries of human suffering and dust of time speak through his voice, without cancelling hope. —Rajesh Saklani
In his poetry, the sluggish listlessness of the state of affairs and the inner melancholy of our day to day living are only matched by the stark political and social realities that jump at us around sudden bends and corners, awaking us out of our own apathy and self-centredness.  —Prasanta Chakravarty
Narendra Jain sees reality from unusual angles and with the lucidity of courage that has surmounted despair. —Rajesh Sharma
The personal music and the tonal quality here is so evocative. One can hear the slow melancholic roll of the fateful years of the 1970s, the ambivalent decade of the 1980s, and from then on to our desperate times. A generational voice at its best. —Nalini Taneja 

About the author

Narendra Jain is among the most respected and distinguished Hindi poets today. He was born in 1948 in Multai, a town in the Betul district of Madhya Pradesh, India. He now lives in Ujjain. He has to his credit several collections of poetry, two novels, many short stories, edited anthologies of plays, children’s literature and translations. He also brought out ‘Antatah’, a literary magazine of poetry and translations.