Taking a Tough Time (Poems)

“Passion and creation work hand in hand, but it is the creation that has the last word.” – Patricia Prime in The Commonwealth Review , Vol. 15, No.1 “Pashupati Jha has evolved a style of his own – uncomplicated, direct yet profound. One marvels at his accurate use of language and economy of idiom.” – Usha Bande in The Indian Journal of English Studies , Vol.50 “Inspired writings of an enlightened intellectual, a man of passion, whose verse is imbued with clarity of style and concept.” Bernard M. Jackson in The Commonwealth Review , Vol. 15, No.1 “Pithy, poignant, memorable and have a stunning effect, like the stroke of a hammer – a trait one can find in abundance in the poetry of Robert Frost and Nissim Ezekiel.” – Ramesh K Srivastava in The Journal of Indian Writing in English , Vol.31 No.2 “He lets his experience gestate and shape into right rhetoric” – Manohar Bandopadhyay in Indian Literature , Vol.48, No.1 “Poetry is always in his bones…most of his poems are evocative and inspiring.” – Gopal Lahiri in Muse India , Issue 63, Sept-Oct.2015 “The thematic concern...ranges from birth to death; from identity/ ego to cosmic consciousness…from science to art to religion; from pain to love, and from suffering to acceptance and resignation, thereby capturing the irony and paradox of human experience itself.” – B.S.Naikar in The Indian Journal of English Studies , Vol.41 “Such unpretentious…array of words and images gives uniqueness to the poems of Jha and enkindles a freshness of an earthy fragrance of the first monsoon rain.” – T. Ravichandran in Kavya Bharati , Vol.26 “He never westernizes his outlook or expression… He believes in Indian tradition and values sans, of course, suppression of women and religious bigotry; yet he never imposes his value system on his readers.” – B. N. Singh in Rainbow Redemption: New Bearings in Indian English Poetry . (2007) “His poems are neither dragging nor nagging. They move with effortless ease, whether in rhyme or without it.” – Pronab Kr Majumder in English Poetry in India: A Twenty First Century Review . (2012) His style is” racy and lucid”…with conversational tone…”evoking immediacy of response.” – Dalip Khetarpal in Contemporary Vibes , Vol.11, Issue 41