Himachal Governor Urmila Singh released a poetry book titled Arun Satsai written by Vice-Chancellor, Himachal Pradesh University Shimla, Arun Diwakar Nath Bajpai at Raj Bhawan on Thursday. She lauded the poet for bringing out this book which comprising about 700 couplets touching every facet of human life.
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, who was present on the occasion, said that Professor Bajpai has put his intellect, experience, thoughts and emotions in the form of couplets in the book. “This creation of poet unfolds layers of life’s successes and failures, credits and discredits, indulgences and disenchantment, pleasures and pain,” he said. The Chief Minister said that poet had penned various aspects of human values, emotions, the sensitivity of human relations and inclination towards present day complexity in the society. He said that while upholding the tradition values linked in Indian way of life the poet also espouses progressive values of modernity.
“The book contained the work related to linguistic controversies, conflicts of ideology and the essence and mystery of religion. The poet had also tried to delve deep into the intricacies of action, speed and yoga and the couplets are brilliantly rendered with carefully chosen diction and a serious underlying the meaning,” CM added.
Bajpai said that this book was out come of the ruminations of about thirty years as he started writing in 1984. He said that core of Arun Satsai is ‘philosophy of life’, adding that the work and the text depicts the contemporary references to the poetry of Bhavabhuti, Bhasa, Kalidasa, Keshav, Rahim, Raskhan, Bhihari, Kabir and Meerabai, which also assimilates the aspects of materialism, attitudes, politics, urban and rural scenario.