GEETHA PATIL
BILLERICA, Massachusetts: A poets’ meet, “Hasya Kavi Sammelan”, was held at the auditorium of Shiridi Sai Baba Temple, Billerica, Massachusetts last week that brought people together from all sections of society who appreciate poetry. Judging from the numbers thronging the auditorium the program was a great success.
Kanchan Banerjee, co-founder of the Indo-US Health Initiatives and Boston Center of Excellence for Health and Human Development (BoCE), Sandeep Shrivastava, co-founder of Magnolian InvestCo (MAGIC LLP) and an advisory partner with Trinity Private Equity Group, Suresh Sharma, president of Milan Cultural Association organized this laughter-filled program for literature lovers of the New England area. Sanjeev Tripathi, the sutradhar of the program, started the session by welcoming the audience.
He invited poets one by one to the stage by giving their brief introductions and recited a short poem written by him just to highlight their special features of the program. The poets meet began with the recitation of short poems and then slowly and gradually the poets made the program more fun-filled by narrating various circumstances and expressing their reactions to those through their comical poems.
Three highly acclaimed Hasya Kavis from India, namely Mahesh Dubey, Ras Bihari Gaur, and Ved Prakash presented Hashya Kavitas and entertained the audiences. During the program, each poet recited his poem and received huge appreciation.
Ras Bihari Gaur started by reciting his amusing poems on various social, familial and marital relationships. His poem on mother and motherland made the audience emotional and won everybody’s hearts.
Mahesh Dubey evoked laughter by poking fun at his own emaciated appearance especially about his baldness and then proceeded to regale the audience with poem after poem in a clear and pure Hindi accent. Ved Prakash was equally amusing, particularly with his poem on Yama Raj and actress Mallika Sherawat.He uttered each line through gentle satire and in the manner of enlivened morality with wit. Ved Prakash uses his poetry as a tool for mocking at people’s behavior.
The poets recited their poems on social life, love relations, spousal sweet and bitter relationships, changing socio-cultural patterns, the loss of values, and the break-up of a familiar way of life, mother and motherland, politics, actors, and other behavioral and cultural subjects of the people in general.
Sanjeev Tripathi also read his poems and summed up the program very diligently.Suresh Sharma said in his concluding remarks that laughter is the best medicine and can create wonders by bringing back happiness and normalcy into our monotonous life and fragmented mind. Kanchan Banerjee thanked all the poets for accepting their invitation and entertaining the gathering through the poems . He also thanked the Shiridi Sai Temple for proving them with auditorium.
