CRITICISM : HINDI POEM BY PROMILA BHARDWAJ : ENGLISH VERSION BY RAJNI CHHABRA

 CRITICISM 

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Involved in criticizing

Whole world spends time

This is means of entertainment

Capable of reforming

Cures like medicine.

It is easy to criticize

But not easy to bear it,

It is not of individuals

It is criticism of their behaviour

Basically, all individuals are almost alike

But appear different 

Due to difference in behaviour

There are so many varieties of behaviour

 Sweet, bitter, sour, spicy

Satirical and serious

Good, bad and mixed

Concocting these

Different kinds of personalities evolve

For falling prey to critics.

Criticizing is easy

But listening to criticism

That too own,

Is so painful and intolerable

It is beneficial as well

If we contemplate on it

It treats our shortcomings

Cautions us, rectifies 

Conduct,- behaviour.

If criticism becomes guide of

Public representatives

Administrative officers

Social reformers

It becomes a means of development

If criticism retains its grace

It is highly appreciable

If turns venomous, it will be fatal.

Destroyer of happiness and peace

Assuming positive form

Let it flow perennially, 

Let it proliferate!

Involved in criticizing

Whole world spends time.