Today, on 7 February we had portray recitation competition in our college. All the students as well as professors and our principal participate enthusiastically in it. It is quite new experience for everyone. As I got chance to do board work , it's like whole process from arranging things then perform and getting reward.
This is my first experience of poetry recitation , I choose Vinod Joshi's poem " Kunchi apo baiji." As I heard it very first time and found it very interesting because it is so deep in meaning.
Here is full poem...
કુંચી આપો બાઇજી!
તમે કિયા પટારે મેલી મારા મૈયરની શરણાઇ જી?
કોઇ કંકુ થાપા ભૂંસી દઇ, મને ભીંતેથી ઉતરાવો.
કોઇ મીંઢળની મરજાદા લઇ , મને પાચીકા પકડાવો.
ખડકી ખોલો બાઇજી! તમે કિયા કટાણે પોંખી મારા કલરવની કઠણાઇ જી!
કુંચી આપો બાઇજી!
તમે ઘરચોળામાં ઘુઘરિયાળી ઘરવખરી સંકેલી.
તમે અણજાણ્યા ઉંબરિયેથી, મારી નદીયું પાછી ઠેલી.
મારગ મેલો બાઇજી! તમે કિયા કુહાડે વેડી મારા દાદાની વડવાઇ જી !
કુંચી આપો બાઇજી!
– વિનોદ જોશી
When a girl get married leave all the things including family and even herself behind. When she grown-up and getting married she lost her childhood. Her innocence and her favourite games. Here through the voice of married girl poet do satire on society on their social traditional which are in a way not good.
Married girl ask for key of her box in which her childhood get hidden. Then she tells that remove her hand prints from wall in a way make her free from social conventions and remove "mindhal from her hand hear mindhal symbolises for social boundaries and give her "pachika" (childhood). Asking for open the window which lead her to the freedom of everything. Then questioning that on which time they welcomes her bad fortune. Here kalarav again symbolises her innocence and childhood.
In the next stanza she is telling that the people folded whole house hold things in her "gharcholu"( wedding dress) , here it showns that all types of responsibility of marriage had given to her. Then they sending back river of her from unknown threshold, here sending her at unknown place. The girl is struggling through the situation. Telling that go away from her way and questioning again with which axe they cut their grand father's banayan tree. Here asking about her individual freedom and her all life style which she left at her parent's house, how can they say to forget the things and act as they say.
In a way whole poem is so deep in meaning and heart touching. Sacrifice of women when she gets married is not tiny. Sometimes we ignore it but this poem is one the best way to express it.
Rank had given to us.
1. Bawaliya Rajdeep
2. Trivedi Vishvjeet
3. Sonani Shruti & Parmar Dhatri
I got third rank and another 22 participants also participated in it. Everyone comes with different poems. Great learning experience for me.
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