Garhwali, Uttarakhand, Himalayan literature

Badrish Pokhariyal : The Encourager of new generation creative
Bhishma Kukreti

Badrish Pokhariyal is famous for his encouragement to new Garhwali literature creative and showing them path of writing style or subject .
For a long time, Badrish Pokhariyal was with in editorial board of Shailodaya weekly being published by Dr Shaiva Nand Nautiyal. He used to call, write letters, visit the creative for contributing in Garhwali literature or write about Garhwali and Garhwal. When Badrish was with Sahityik Mandal Delhi, he published many books of Uttarakhandi literature.

Badrish Poklhariyal was born in 1918, in village- Timlalikhatsyun of Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand.

Badrish is famous for creating poetry in Garhwali and Hindi .
He translated Meghdoot of Kalidas and Kamayani of Jayshankar Prasad . These translations are enjoyable as original Meghdoot and original Kamayani.

He also published two poetry collections in Hindi- Yadon ke Jharkhand Se and Kala.
He is master of Garhwali vocabulary that his way of translating Sanskrit poetry becomes unique that the readers do not feel that the poems are the work of translation.

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