Hindi Kavya- Sandhya at Consulate of India in Atlanta
An evening that brewed words into poetry

By Shilpa Agarwal

Language is the mother of all cultures. It keeps you connected to your roots, amuses you into the anecdotes of past, enthralls you with the present and wheels you to the future. Atlanta literati enjoyed a literary Saturday on the bright and pleasant evening of May 21st, 2016.

Consulate General of India at Atlanta and the local Hindi drama group “Dhoop Chaoon” shouldered the responsibility of carrying the flag of Hindi- Urdu literature by organizing the first Hindi Kavya Sandhya “An evening of Poetry in Hindi” at the Consulate of India in Atlanta.
Bustling with love for the language which is unique in all aspects more then 25 people recited poetry some of them recited their creations and writeen by some famous poets as well.
As diverse the language is, as was the composition of poets on this mesmerizing evening. Audience were able to soak in the poems from octogenarian poets to teen poets, doctor poets to engineer poets and humorous poets to serious ones. The poets who recited poems in this event were Aarti Nayyar, Alok Sharma, Anagha Srinivasan, Brij Rani Varma, Chandar Gambhir, Chaturbhuj Narayan Singh, Anshuman Varma, Dr. Om Arora, Lavanya Shah, Shilpa Agrawal, Kamlesh chugh, Kiran Sinha, Naval Parval, Mridula Kirti, Nidhi Pippal, Advait Anand, Vimala Nikore, Pankaj Patel, Priti Kishore Gupta, Pramila Dhirendra, Rita Kapahi, Dr. Jagadish Agarwal, Surindra Dhar and Sandhya Bhagat and D.V.Singh.

These wordsmiths brewed the words into concoctions of social issues, diaspora emotions, humor and story telling. Each poet came up with a masterpiece creation and portrayed talent that usually goes unexpressed, if not for events like these.
Mrs. Sandhya Saexna Bhagat and Mr. D.V. Singh thanked those in attendance and promised that events like this would keep coming back to Atlanta.
After having indulged into word concoctions by poets, the attendees got to enjoy a sumptuous feast in the beautiful lawns of the Indian Consulate.
The program was visualized and materialized by the efforts of Mr. D.V. Singh (Consul/ head of Chancery, India at Atlanta or Consulate General of India at Atlanta) and Mrs. Sandhya Saxena Bhagat (Founder/ Director of Dhoop- Chaoon, a local drama/arts group) and was supported by Anil Bhagat, Subhash Rajdan, Raj Rajdan, Kailash Khandelwal,Anjali Chabria ( from TV Asia) and Local Media Groups