Jayanti:133 Shivapoojan Sahay: Memoirs & Diaries BSM Murty Shivapoojan Sahay began his literary career in the second decade of the 20th century which extended for over five decades in his life in which he wrote more than a hundred literary memoirs, along with numerous reminiscences and obituary articles. These were published in various journals between 1921 and 1961. Many of these memoirs and reminiscences, including several short life-sketches, written up to 1959, were collected in the first part of Rachanavali (4). In the latter part were collected his editorial articles and notes some of which also contained reminiscences. The first memoir published in Rachanavali (4) is on Shivji’s intimate friend, Kumar Devendra Prasad Jain, who was also a budding Hindi-lover and publisher and who had sadly met a sudden and untimely death. The memoir was published in Chaitanya Chandrika (1921, Patna City). It was on his bidding that Shivji, in the b...
Hindi Translated Poems – 1 By BSM Murty The Joohi Bud Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’ Indolent, on a lonesome woodland bine Lay lapped in leafy bowers – in wedded bliss – lost in dreams of love- A snow-fresh, soft, sweet maid – the Joohi bud: Its eyelids sealed. ‘Twas vernal night time. Loitering in some land remote Was the lonely Breeze, love-lorn, forlorn - the Breeze they call the Malaya. Memories surged up, Of that sweet murmur in reunion, Of the moon-laved midnight, Of the tremulous, lovely limbs of his love. And lo, the Breeze – over lakes and groves and broo...