History of Garhwali, Kumaoni, Himalayan Literature

Dhanesh Kothari : A Garhwali Poet of New Symbols and Sharp Attitude
Bhishma Kukreti

In terms of poetry movement, Garhwalis will remember Dhanesh Kothari as the poets Pierre Reverdy, Arthur Rembaud, Yves Bonnefoy in French, Cesar Vallejo of Peruvian, Sheema kalbasi of Iranian language, Fernado Pessosa of Portuguese language, Vasko Pops of Seribian, Pablo Neruda of Chilean language for their contributions in keeping poetry movement alive.
Dhanesh Kothari is new generation Garhwali language poet who uses new symbols and have sharp attitude towards wrong happenings. Dhanesh Kothari touched various subject concerns in Garhwal and India . Kothari believes in criticizing the wrong happenings with sharp words and does not believe in mild criticism. It may be said that Dahnesh is multidimensional poet in terms of subject, narration, style and new experimentation.
Dhanesh Kothari was born on 26 December, 1970 in Devprayag, Tihri Garhwal , Himalaya.
Kothari is graduate from Rajkiya Mahavidyalaya Rishikesh and started creating poems from early age. Dhad movement sharpens his ability for fineness and motivated Kothari for creating poetry in Garhwali language.
Dhanesh Kothari created more than two hundred poems in Garhwali language and published in various periodicals as Sahara Samay, Khabar Sar, Chitthi Patri , Rant Raibar, Dandi Kanthi, Yugvani . Akashvani has been broadcasting his poems for many years.
Dhanesh writes stories in Garhwali but believes in focusing in creating poetries.
Jyundal is Garhwali poetry collection book published in 2009 from Dhad Prakashan. The renowed garhwali language critic Veerendra Panwar states that Jyundal is the initiating ritual of creating awareness for humanity among the human beings . The poems of Kothari compel the readers or audience in Kavisammelan for thinking about diminishing the cultural and social values , sharp decline in feelings of responsibilities by the authorities responsible for development of the area concerned . The poems of Dhanesh Kothari are full of agonizes for ecological concerns, ignorance for Garhwali language among Garhwalis and wrongly or dangerous changes taking place in the society and administration .
His satires stir the readers that readers start thinking to avoid wrong happenings in the country and Garhwali society. Many poems are very satiric but at the end those poems create helplessness, actionlessness in the reader’s mind.
His many poems are rebellion in nature and he clearly without mincing the words ask the readers go for revolutions .
Dhanesh create poetries in conventional styles and never hesitates for doing new experiments for adding new dimensional forms to Garhwali but takes care that even the Atukant kavita do not leave the lyrical effect of poetries.
Dhanesh uses all types of symbols that is conventional rural Garhwali symbols and newly born symbols in the modern society and show that poet is aware about changes happenings in linguistic arena of the social circle. Dhanesh created many his own symols too, which suit to the subject and reader’s mental frame. Same way, Dhanesh Kothari is always successful in creating his own intentional images in mind of his readers. The narration style of Kothari and language is simple and well understable by common readers besides intellectual ones. No doubt , subjects, the style and language of Kothari are contemporary but Kothari uses conventional Garhwali proverbs, idioms, sayings , words so effectively that his many poems become the linking poems between the past and present.
Definitely Dhanesh Kothari will earn a name in the Garhwali literature for his subjects, style and uses of symbols, creating intentional images , rebellion poems .

Cpyright @ Bhishma Kukreti, Mumbai, India, 2009