Revati{english Translation Of Odia Poem Revati} Poem by Bharati Nayak

Girl Education! With the same problem seen in most parts of the world. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

Its good that many improvements has been done in the education of women outside the cities of India. The story goes that all died of cholera except the grandmother. A sad love story as well between revati and basu that was never consummated.

I am so glad you translated this into English. I do not know how it read in the Odia language, but it sounds both fluid and heart-breakingly powerful in English. I'm particularly thankful that you did translate into English because I know I take things for granted- - girls in America could always go to school [of course our gender did meet bias when it came to pursuing certain careers such as physicians, [my Mother had to put her foot down to become a nurse because my Father didn't think it ladylike! ]. But doors opened to our gender many years ago and I hope and pray that doors are flung wide open in your country. I have loved learning since kindergarten==learning to read was like opening the universe to me and it hurts to think that there are little girls even today who are forbidden to be who their talents would lead them to be, whose minds hunger for knowledge, who are considered less than men, and are expected to find their fulfillment in serving men. I wish, , , I wish a billion things for the little girls all over the world- - - -I wonder if someone wise could start a foundation that would be funded to bring every girl to countries that would treat them with respect and love and educate the dickens out of them!

Though with time, things have improved, there are still 'Revatis' living in our midst...! Not only a girl is denied education and is cut off from the elite society, but her very gender is despised and seen as a curse! Social reformers and women activists are doing a great job to educate girls to whom it is deprived....! Unless there is a radical change in the social and psychological milieu, education and employment will remain a rosy dream to many of those girls living in the interiors....! You have given a life like stature to the Revati of the fiction and she serves as a prototype..... Let us hope that the number of Revati's in our society diminishes year by year....! Great write, Bharati...!

A very significant n relevant write. Based on an old short story this poem resonates with modern times too. Still a great number of girls are deprived of their right to get education. The issues this girl Revati faces are very much relevant today. Your poem gives a powerful voice to girls who cannot speak for themselves. A very soul-stirring write. Kudos. A super 10.

This is a painful poem but a necessary one. Revati was doubly innocent, first because of her early age and also because her desire for an education was the right cause to fulfill. But even her grandmother had accepted the unfair custom of not educating girls. She was robed of her life but her example gives life to later girls. Hers was the life of sacrifice whether she know that or not.