5. SOUND BY RAJANI PARULEKAR

                                      About the Author

The poet, Rajni Parulekar is originally a poet of Marathi and has received Maharastra state Award for her contributions to Marathi literature. Her three collections of poems in Marathi have been published and have received praise from the records. This poem entitled 'Sound' has been taken from 'Indian Literature and has been translated in English by Suhas Suryakant Limaye. She was born in 1945.

Word Meaning:-

Originally : मूलरूप से, Received: प्राप्त किया, Award: पुरस्कार , Contribution: योगदान, Literature: साहित्य, Collection: संग्रह, Published: प्रकाशित ,Praise: प्रशंसा, Records: अभिलेख, Entitled: शीर्षक, हकदार, Translated : अनुवादित।

Q. 1. How do trees help us?
Ans. Trees absorb the poisonous carbon dioxide gases from the atmosphere and give oxygen gases which is most necessary from our life. They give shadow in which we take rest in summer. We use their woods as many kinds of room furniture. This trees help us.

Q. 2. Should you cut trees?
Ans. No, we should not cut trees. But if it would be necessary to cut trees it is our duty to replant the number of trees which we are cutting.

Q. 3. Name the trees which you have in your school garden.
Ans. The following trees are these in any school garden- Shisham tree, Mango tree, Nim tree, Sagwan tree, Guava and Banana etc.

Q. 4. Have you planted trees in your locality? If not, would you do it?
Ans. Yes, I have planted trees in many locality.

             

SOUND BY RAJANI PARULEKAR

A tree in the woods is hacked जंगल के एक पेड़ को काट दिया गया ,
Its branch breaking away और शाखाओं को अलग कर दिया गया,
what do the halves पेड़ के पृथक हिस्से ,
whisper to each other? आपस में  कानाफूसी करते है ,
Do they moan and groan क्या उनके अन्तः स्थल ,
In the heart of their hearts? कराह रहें है, दर्द से छटपटा रहें है ?,
And do these logs driven from each other
Reminisce?
और क्या पेड़ के ये टुकड़े जो एक दुसरे से पृथक हो गए है पुराने दिनों को याद करते हैं ?
Do they remember how the wind tossed
them? क्या उन्हें याद आता है कि हवा उन्हें कैसे स्पंदित करती थी ?

How they got drenched in the rain? वर्षा में वे कैसे भीगकर तर होते थे ?
And the blossoms in the spring और वसंत में उनमे कोंपलें निकलती थी,
And the fall in autumn? और पतझड़ में झड जाति थी  ?
Oh! But the wind knows. ओह ! परन्तु हवा को मालुम है,
The wind blowing with a din
In places forlorn Sings such songs
सूनी जगहों पर सरसराती हवा ऐसी गीतें गाती  हैं .

 

Those songs not all could praise सब लोग उन गीतों कि प्रशंसा नहीं कर सकते  ,
Many a man is blunt, अधिकांश लोग रूखे होते है,
He doesn't even sense उन्हें अहसास नहीं हो पाता  .
The agonies caught उन संवेदनाओं को जो निहित होते हैं
Even in simple words! साधारण शब्दों में भी !
What then of these songs तब इन गीतों का क्या ?
They are just sounds वे बस ध्वनियाँ हैं
Such sounds as would be choked to death. ऐसी ध्वनियाँ जिनका दम घोट दिया जायेगा.
If confined in the strokes and coils of script. यदि लिपियों में उनकी उपस्थिति साबित हो  जाए

Word Meaning: 

Tree:पेड़ , Woods: जंगल, Hacked:टुकड़े करना , Branch:शाखायें , Breaking Away: तोड़कर अलग करना , Halves: आधें, Whispered: फुसफुसाना , Moan: विलाप करना , Groan:कराहना , Heart: दिल, ह्रदय , Logs:लकड़ी के कुंडे , Driven:चलाया, Reminisce:बीती घटनाओं के बारे में सोचना , Remember: याद करना ,  Wind: हवा , Tossed: हवा में ऊपर उछालना , Drenched:भिगोना , Rain:वर्षा,  Blossoms: कली का खिलना, Spring: वसन्त , Fall: गिरना , Autumn: पतझड़ , Knows: जानता है , Dim/ Din :धुधला , Forlorn:लाचार ,असहाय , Sings: गाता है , Such: ऐसा , Praise: प्रशंसा , Blunt: भोथरा, मुर्ख , Sense: ज्ञान , Sounds: ध्वनियाँ, Choked To Death: दम घोट कर मारना , Confined: सीमा के अन्दर रखना , Strokes: चोट या वार करना , Script: लिपि , Coils : कुंडली बनाना

         SOUND BY RAJANI PARULEKAR

SUMMARY : Sound By Rajani Parulekar

The poem 'Sound' is taken from Indian literature which is written by a Marathi poetess Rajani Parulekar. In this poem the poet has described the importance of trees in our life. We have need of trees in our life. The trees take the Carbon dioxide gases which are inhaled by the human beings. Tree here most important role in our life. The balance of environment is due to trees. But our selfishness we are cutting the trees badly and inviting the global unbalancing. Our selfishness is so great that we do not feel any kind of pain, mean and groom of the trees.

 

The trees struggle themselves against the winds, rains and summers and then get their blossoms in the spring. But we human beings do not feel the pain of the trees and never remember the struggle of them. We agony them as cutting. We know it that trees have most important role in our breathing and balancing of poisonous gases in the environment. And knowing the truth we are cutting trees and never hear the painful sound of the trees.