CI Correspondent: Since when are you in teaching and for how many years have you been associated with poetry?

Satish Bedaag: In 1990, two things happened, I completed my B.Ed., i.e. the course needed to teach, and my first compilation 'Tasavvur-e-Jana' was released the same year. So, I have been in poetry, or say the poetry was in me since I was a teenager. A year later, I started teaching and since then I am pursuing both my passions, i.e. poetry and teaching.

CI Correspondent: You are teaching Science and dealing with warm emotions in your poetry. How do you manage to justify these two diverse subjects together? 

Satish Bedaag: My subject compliments my poetry, Anjali. It poses no obstructions. Rather, many a time I express my subject in the ghazal couplets, just see:

              ‘Daane daane ko ham taraste nahin

                     Hota ham mein bhi gar chloriphyll’

It means that there would have been no scarcity of food in any home, if our body would have contained chlorophyll, the green food making pigment, present in green plants.

And

              ‘Chaand dharti ke gird raqsaan hai

                        Chaand ke gird ghoomta hai dil’