Garhwali , Kumaoni, Himalayan Literature

Vishwa Prakash Baudai : a Garhwali Language Poet
Bhishma Kukreti

Vishwa prakash Baudai was born on 8th March 1962, in Panchrad village of Savali Patti of Pauri Garhwal, Himalaya.
The learned Baudai is MSW from Lucknow University, M.A (political Science and Sociaology) and is having B Ed degree.
At present, Vishwa Prakash Baudai teaches in Baijaro, Thalisain, Pauri Garhwal.
Vishwa prakash Baudai published tens of Garhwali language poems in regional periodicals and in poetry collection books as Gwai and Biji Gyai Kavita .
His poems in Garhwali language ‘Kavita ki Kavita’ , Turank, Ai Jala Affi, Dandai peed, Jatra , Chunda ar Chipkao, Baktal barkhi, Gwai, Ghol, Nakli, Chain, talwar, Dekha, Suddi ni Kata, Fund Fuka are famous and admired poems among his tens of Garhwali poems.
Baudai has been writing poems on different subjects and does experiment in creating poems in terms of forms and styles. The poems of Vishwa prakash are rhymes and rhyme less too. Most of his poems are directive and inspirational. Vishwa Prasad Baudai also wrote poems on related to environmental subject too as Suddi ni Kata again a directive poem.

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