Be the Future
Dr. Shalini Yadav
Walk on the life's path
With resolution's torch
Bring sunlight
To remove the haziness
To split the darkness
Don't leave anything unresolved
From your palms of consciousness
Don't let anything go
Don't let your present slip away
Hither and thither like sand
Don't let your morale befall
On the floor like mercury
Don't care about temblor
Flow boisterously
Without halting yourself
Keeping your fist full
Igniting fire in your heart
Floating dreams in your eyes
Settling notes in your throat
Creating melodious music
Be the progress on life's path
Which won't be tired
Be the future
Which will go ahead perpetually
Making your own path like a river...
An avid poet, writer, humanitarian, ambassador of peace and professor, Dr Shalini Yadav holds a PhD in Post-colonial Literature and M. Phil in English Language Teaching (ELT) from the University of Rajasthan, India and a course in Advanced Creative Writing from the University of Oxford, UK. During her tenure as an educator in India, Libya and Saudi Arabia, she has participated and presented papers at conferences and seminars, chaired sessions and delivered lectures. She keeps reading her poems and short stories at various National and International poetry carnivals. She has meticulously written and also reviewed a large number of scholarly research articles for various National and International refereed journals and edited volumes. She is executive member at iSPELL India, Administrator and Star Poetry Publisher at The Passion of Poetry and member of various literary societies including ICERT, PLCS, IELTA, AINET, Writers Capital Foundation etc. She is managing editor at Glitterati, a quarterly magazine and editor at Rhyvers Beat, a monthly literary magazine.
The editor of Open Page in Writers International Edition, she is also an efficacious member of the editorial boards of various qualitative journals of many countries. She has authored and edited 12 books till now and working on her next project entitled Contemporary African Women Writers. Her major books include Reconnoitering Postcolonial Literature, Emerging Psyche of Women: A Feminist Perspective, On the Wings of Life: Women Writing Womanhood, Postcolonial Transition and Cultural Dialectics, and Communication Techniques. Besides, her poetry books includes Across the Seas, Floating Haiku, Kinship With You: A Collection of Poems, Till the End of Her Subsistence: An Anthology of Poems, and one in Hindi Kshitiz Ke Us Paar. Many of her short stories and poems are published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and anthologies. She is recipient of Acharya Mahaveer Prasad Dwivedi Award, Savitribai Phule Excellence Award-2023 and Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Award-2023.
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