For You to Decide by C L Khatri

Abstract

C L Khatri is a well-known personality among Indian creative writers. His poetic collection For You to Decide (2016) is an addition to already published Kargil (2000), Ripples in the Lake (2006), and Two –Minute Silence (2014). In For You to Decide, the poet emerges with more sensitive and ardent thoughts. It is a collection of fifty one poems. His concern is not to shed light on what has happened. He tries to help social beings to orient for betterment of humanity. In a number of poems, the poet shades light on his poetic manifesto. He is of the opinion that ‘the best speaks the least’. A sensitive poet always takes birth into a piece of poem while going through ‘ferns and flowers’. He finds modern world as the world of fools for their weakening sensitivity and where ‘blaming others is an easy escape route’. A piece of creating writing ever looks for the purgation of negative forces active along with positive potentiality of mind. It sparks the flame within. In the poem “Poetry Wants to Stand With You”, the poet opines that ‘poetry lights a candle’ in case of extreme moral degeneration. It affects the very core function of lives. It helps resurrect gently the ashes.