laxmaInaarayaNa gauPt 

Originally from Kanpur, India, Laxmi-Narayan Gupta is a professor and assistant department head in the Department of Math and Statistics at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.  He had his early education in Kanpur with a M.Sc in Mathematics and after spending a year at IIT, Kanpur as a research scholar, he came to State University of NY at Buffalo where he finished his Ph. D. in 1972.  He taught in a small college in Buffalo before joining RIT in 1980.

He has been writing Hindi poetry for several years. Some of  his poems have been published in "Vishwa", "Vishwa-Vivek", and "Bhasha Setu." The former two are quarterly magazines published from Us and the latter is published from India. He has done a Hindi verse translation of Gita published in 1998 by the Reliance Press of New Delhi. An associate editor of Vishwa Professor Gupta has also done a Hindi verse translation of "Ishopanishad," published on Boloji.com.
 

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khanaI  
ek BauthI p`oma kqaa    

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caar rsagaullao  
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naardmaaoh inavaarNa  
p`aOZ, p`Naya inavaodna   
ma[yaa maaoihM Da} bahut iKJaayaao    
laalaa dInadyaala ka AmarIka inavaasa  

kivataeM  
AaYaaZ, ko Gana  
ek gaja,la   
ek p<aI  
kba ]r sao kivata ]ztI hO   
kamanaa    
iktnaI baar     
jaIvana ka saMgaIt   
dao nayana     
madna AaOr maaohna   
maayaa ko gaBa- sao 
p%qar maoM rama  
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