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Bhatnagar’s canvas of poetry is embellished with myriad colours. One can feel the aroma of Indian soil in all his seven collections of poems. Bhatnagar’s sensitive heart throbs for the suffering humanity –the poor, the destitute, and the downtrodden, who struggle hard to prove their existence in today’s profligate society. He writes for the proletarians in their language so that they can feel the warmth and intensity with which he writes. The themes, that he has chosen, are part and parcel of a life of common man. The quest for identity, existential dilemma, lose of human values, the dryness and monotony of modern man, death, immortality, religious hypocrisy, corruption are some of the dominant themes which add colour to his poetic works. Death has been an unresolved puzzle since time immemorial. It has power to conquer life leaving it helpless like an orphan. But Bhatnagar treats it in different light by calling it a beggar orphan. My paper focuses on his unique vision of death as expressed in his poetic collections.