Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S is a famous poem by Indian author, Nissim Ezekiel. This is a speech poem in which poet writes farewell speech for Miss Pushpa T.S who is leaving her country, India and going in foreign country.
Goodbye Party of Miss Pushpa T.S By Nissim Ezekiel
Summary of Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S By Nissim Ezekiel
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S is a humorous poem and it is because because of the writer of poem. First reason is writer use of Indian English, earlier times when India was slave to Britishers, Indian people tried to speak in English but not able to speak in fluent English and used to have many grammatical mistakes.
As well as poem speaker is a very humorous person as he has no public speaking skills and speaks whatever comes in his mind.
The story of poem begins with writer who says our dear friend is going in foreign country within two or three days. We are here gathered here today to wish her safe journey.
Through first stanza we can learn that poet is giving a farewell speech for a woman who is going in foreign. Friends, you all know that how sweet is Miss Pushpa and how good her behavior is towards other people.
The poet says Miss Pushpa is not just sweet from outside but she is also sweet from inside as she is a good person by heart and care for people. Miss Pushpa smiles, smiles and smiles even when she has no reason, she smiles because her heart wants to. The writer is trying to say that Miss Pusha is a happy person who always has smile on her face.
Miss Pushpa belongs to rich and upper class family, her father was a famous advocate in Bulsar or Surat, I’m just forgetting the exact place either it was Bulsar or Surat.
I got it , he was in Surat, I only stayed in Surat for once in my life with my Uncle’s family members old friend. His wife cooked very nice food for me. Here speaker started sharing about his experience in Surat, he forget that he was telling a farewell speech for Miss Pushpa.
Let’s come back to Miss Pushpa, she is an very popular lady among men and women. In simple words, Miss Pushpa is a very famous person as everyone knows her whether it is men or women.
Whenever I asked her to do something, she just replies that she can do it now only. It shows her good spirit and what kind of person she is and always ready to help people. I always appreciate her hard work and great spirit of nature.
Miss Pushpa never says no to anyone for any kind of work, whatever I or anyone ask her to do she is always available to help people. She always replies in yes and never says yes in terms of helping people.
Today, she will improve her nature more and we are wishing her good luck for her new journey. She is going so we are here to say good bye to her and to appreciate her. Now, I request others speakers to come forward to say farewell speech about Miss Pusha and after that she will give concluding speech.
ABOUT AUTHOR : –
Nissim Ezekiel is an Indian Jewish poet, actor and playwright who was born in 16 December 1924. Nissim was awarded with Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983. His famous work include Night of Scorpion and Latter Day Psalms.