Kaka Hathrasi is a name every Hindi literature aficionado must be knowing. I chanced upon another of his books at a local bookshop. His vibrant face on the book cover that beard and wide grin made me remember some of his writings and I felt like grinning too.
His poems are like that - make you grin. His topics very lively, regular day hassles. His style very normal yet addictive. Couple of days of continuously reading his poems and my mind got imprinted of the rhyme. Maybe I even started speaking like his poems for a day or two.
Though I must admit that first time around when I read his work, I was crazy laughing. This time around, this book although gave me many more poems to read, yet perhaps due to my own age or thought process, made me laugh a little bit less. However it is his style and so we must accept the occasional boredom that comes with reading medium-long book of poetry with one style. It is my personal problem and not Kaka's that I have shorter attention span than others.
To someone interested in Hindi Literature and comic genre : it would be funny if you miss this gem. The big names should be read so that you never live thinking.. who was he? What did he write?
His poems are like that - make you grin. His topics very lively, regular day hassles. His style very normal yet addictive. Couple of days of continuously reading his poems and my mind got imprinted of the rhyme. Maybe I even started speaking like his poems for a day or two.
Though I must admit that first time around when I read his work, I was crazy laughing. This time around, this book although gave me many more poems to read, yet perhaps due to my own age or thought process, made me laugh a little bit less. However it is his style and so we must accept the occasional boredom that comes with reading medium-long book of poetry with one style. It is my personal problem and not Kaka's that I have shorter attention span than others.
To someone interested in Hindi Literature and comic genre : it would be funny if you miss this gem. The big names should be read so that you never live thinking.. who was he? What did he write?
