THARU ENGLISH POET :RAM NATH QAUZI OF THARUHAT(WEST CHAMPARAN/BIHAR/INDIA)

THARU ENGLISH POET :RAM NATH QAUZI 

OF

 THARUHAT(WEST CHAMPARAN/BIHAR/INDIA)

Can

Can we think of a poet & scholar, that too in English, that too in this remote & backward region called Tharuhat of West Champaran. Perhaps "No". But this is not the case here. 

Poem or poetry is not the personal property of only developed people or place. Poetry is the expression of one's feeling or experience inked in  any language and in any place or locality irrespective of the fact that the place or region is backward or developed.

 Ram Nath Quazi has written poetry not in  his own language but most surprisingly in English and that  too living in the most backward & inhospitable region "tharuhat" of West Champaran of Bihar ( India).

It will not be out of place or context to quote a  few lines from his book "A Lovely Living Poem" published in 1996:

The Black Bee and the Flower

"The main function of the beauty of flowers is

To attract insects for pollination."

The wonder of wonders

That the lovely, colourful flowers

Should give their nectar of pleasure

To a black ugly creature:

You may be black ,ugly creature

But if you are a true lover

You will have the nectar of pleasure.

The Deity of Love

We have our gods,goddesses and deities

Whom we worship in temples and shrines

And regard all the celestial divines

As fountain-heads of human qualities.

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And among them all you have the greatest

Claim to be anointed as deity;

For, you are the humane deity of love. 

Ram Nath Qauzi  has the distinction of being the first MA (Master of Arts) of the Tharuhat of West Champaran.

For in-depth field-based 
(around three decades) details 
on Tharus of West Champaran:
"Pattern of Social Change among the Tharus of West Champaran in Bihar"  Thesis submitted to JNU for Award of PhD by Dr AJAY KUMAR(OJHA) in 2009.