“Maun Ki Muskaan” is not just a collection of poems; it is a voice from the soul of a woman. Priyanka Saurabh’s works raise life, love, struggle, and social injustice on a deeply emotional and ideological level. Every poem transforms silence into language and silence into resistance. Whether it is the voice of government schools or the Rakhi of a martyr, every line touches the soul. This collection is for all those who want to read life beyond words. Let us know. An essential collection – the need of today’s Hindi poetry.
Dr. Poornima
“Maun Ki Muskaan” is not an ordinary collection of poems. It is a document of those countless silences of a woman, which neither history is aware of nor the present often wants to know. Priyanka Saurabh’s poems open those layers of life, where not words but emotions speak; and when they speak, the entire society hears.
In the poem “Sannate Ki Sanjh Mein” Priyanka writes:
“Love is not a theatrical performance,
It is a musical composition of two natures
Where there is silence
Then the other one sings.”
This line touches the depth of a woman’s silence and her intimate dialogue. The poetess has presented silence and dialogue as the foundation of relationships – a woman’s silence is not a weakness, but a depth.
Similarly, in “We Want a Song of Truth,” she speaks of power, conscience, and moral loneliness:
“In whose favour
Let there be no slogans, no drums,
The voice of that one
Occasionally
A constitution is made.”
This poem is the declaration of a movement that begins not from the crowd but from a single, truthful person standing alone. This collection not only makes one emotional but also awakens the consciousness of justice, struggle, and self-esteem.
When reading a composition like “When a soldier is martyred,” the eyes become moist:
“Sister’s Rakhi is martyred,
now only in pictures
The wrist searches.”
There is no artificial revolution in Priyanka’s language – it is the untold history of the extraordinary lives of ordinary women.
Poems like “Umeedon ke Chand Taare”, “Jab Naqab Uthate Hain”, and “Mat Samjho Tum…” create new definitions of introspection and self-esteem. Especially in “Jab Naqab Uthate Hain”, there is that boldness, which is the most accurate introduction of the self-respect of today’s woman:
“Now I don’t have any hope from anyone,
Nor is there any lesson left,
The truth has resolved everything,
The court of lies is now empty.”
In the poem “Aao Sarkari School Chalen”, Priyanka talks about that section of the society which is fighting the battle for education in government schools – this poem is not just an emotion, it is also a deep comment on the education policy:
“No tie-suit, no dress code,
But it doesn’t connect with the heart like that.”
A work like “Sapna Bandha Shadiyon Mein” is a complete manifesto of linguistic struggle, where Priyanka has directly attacked the multilingual inequality of the country:
“Is this true? Is this justice?
Are the chains of language a matter of courage?”
This is a poem that challenges linguistic hegemony and becomes the voice of the dreamers in every regional language of India.
In conclusion:
Priyanka Saurabh’s poems are not ‘literary decorations’, but are the truths of life that come from the soul of a woman. The courage, spontaneity and sensitivity with which she writes give her a special place in today’s Hindi poetry.
No one returns empty-handed after reading “The Silence of the Lambs”. This collection fills us from within – sometimes with questions, sometimes with protests, and sometimes with hopes.
This book is for all of them:
Those who want to understand the meaning of being a woman.
Those who consider poetry to be the language of the soul.
And those who want to give voice to the silent questions in society.
