Book Title : Sopan Ghazal Sangrah
Author: Sopan Poetry Group
This anthology is a collection of ghazals of fresh ghazal writers from over eight hindi speaking states of India. it has representative works of established poets who have been writing together each evening on social media and are connected through facebook.
Sopan is a poetry group with about 10000 ( ten thousand poets and poetry lovers). They are of all age groups and professions . Through this group which holds its meeting point in Facebook, an extempore – ghazal writing activity called “filbadih” is conducted every evening, without fail at 7:30 pm. After finishing their work, people gather on the network to do poetry. On days there are as many as ten thousand couplets posted.
Sopan also has study groups where fresh writers are taught ghazal writing – syllabel value rules. Such groups bring more positivity and energy to social networks.
Poiesis society for Poetry has awarded this book as the best work of a poetry group in the second quarter of 2018.
This book is divided into six sections. The first ‘anunaad’ (अनुनाद) which means echo, carries works which have a fresh energy with a musical flight of thoughts. The second ‘antarnaad’ (अंतर्नाद) which means the inner sound, carries works that depict the turbulence of thoughts inside the mind. The third ‘ardhnaad’ (अर्धनाद) which means incomplete sound, carries a poetic revolt towards the incompleteness of the society and lack of clarity in social value systems. The fourth ‘anad’ (अनाद ) carries works that talk about the nameless existence of those sections of society where humans do not have a voice of their own. The fifth is ‘pratinaad’ (प्रतिनाद ) which is a revolt, a reaction of the poet to the existing state of affairs in social and political organizations. Its a reflection of systems which show the helplessness of common man. The final sixth section is ‘muktnaad’ (मुक्तनाद) which is the final resolve, the invocation of the struggle of life, as a pledge to rebel.
The book “Charag Jaltey Hain” contains ghazals written by noted shair Raz Sagri, presently living in Khargone (M. P.), a small town in West Nimar region.
‘Kalyug Ki Poorv Sandhya’ is a bilingual poem containing 153 verses in Hindi and English. The English verses are translation of the Hindi verses by the author himself.
“Suraj ke gaon mein”, is a poetry-collection of the works of Saroj Singh Parihar “Suraj” in Hindi. Her poetry is in a variety of syllable value styles, embellished with innumerable emotions and metaphors. Suraj believes that this world is balanced with the presence of opposites – she believes happiness with sadness , love with pain, peace with war and life with death and we can see her beliefs translated in her book as poetry.
Shailendra Singh “Shail” is an established Ghazal writer from Lucknow. His writings exhibit a large foray of Love as experienced in human life. The deep rooted social issues like inequality, poverty and gender are there in his works. He also talks about the tenderness of human life and the helplessness of life.
Udaan is a poetry group with about 50000 ( fifty thousand poets and poetry lovers). They are of all age groups and belong to the Hindi speaking states of India. Through this group which holds its meeting point in Facebook, an extempore-ghazal writing activity called “filbadih” is conducted every evening, without fail at 
