Karuna

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सह जाते हो उत्पीड़न की क्रीड़ा सदा निरंकुश नग्न, हृदय तुम्हारा दुबला होता नग्न, अन्तिम आशा के कानों में स्पन्दित हम - सबके प्राणों में अपने उर की तप्त व्यथाएँ, क्षीण कण्ठ की करुण कथाएँ कह जाते हो और जगत की ओर ताककर दुःख हृदय का क्षोभ त्यागकर, सह जाते हो। कह जातेहो- "यहाँकभी मत आना, उत्पीड़न का राज्य दुःख ही दुःख यहाँ है सदा उठाना, क्रूर यहाँ पर कहलाता है शूर, और हृदय का शूर सदा ही दुर्बल क्रूर; स्वार्थ सदा ही रहता परार्थ से दूर, यहाँ परार्थ वही, जो रहे स्वार्थ से हो भरपूर, जगतकी निद्रा, है जागरण, और जागरण जगत का - इस संसृति का अन्त - विराम - मरण अविराम घात - आघात आह! उत्पात! यही जग - जीवन के दिन-रात। यही मेरा, इनका, उनका, सबका स्पन्दन, हास्य से मिला हुआ क्रन्दन। यही मेरा, इनका, उनका, सबका जीवन, दिवस का किरणोज्ज्वल उत्थान, रात्रि की सुप्ति, पतन; दिवस की कर्म - कुटिल तम - भ्रान्ति रात्रि का मोह, स्वप्न भी भ्रान्ति, सदा अशान्ति!"

इति

The Poet

सूर्यकांत त्रिपाठी "निराला

Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'

1899 · 1961

Suryakant Tripathi Nirala lived in the permanent condition of the truly original. He was frequently misunderstood by the very world he transformed. Born in Bengal but claiming Hindi as the medium of his revolution, he dismantled the metrical structures of classical Sanskrit based verse. He introduced what he called mukta chhand, or free verse, into a tradition that had never encountered it and was not at first grateful. His life was a sustained encounter with catastrophe. The plague took his wife, daughter, and brother in the same brutal sweep. Poverty pressed against him without mercy, and critical misunderstanding sometimes shaded into deliberate cruelty. Yet from within this suffering, he produced verse of such concentrated and terrible beauty that it reads not as the product of a broken man, but as the testimony of a spirit that had gone through fire and returned with the fire still alive inside it. His epic Ram Ki Shakti Puja remains one of the supreme poems in the Hindi language. It is a profound meditation on doubt, divine abandonment, and the final trembling choice to go on fighting. Nirala was not a comfortable figure, nor was he praised sufficiently in his lifetime. But he was, in the most absolute sense, free. That freedom cost him everything and produced everything. He remains the patron saint of the uncompromising.

Paired Painting

Draupadi Humiliated

This profound and emotionally charged canvas captures a devastating moment from the Virata Parva of the Mahabharata. Disguised as Sairandhri, the queen Draupadi lies fallen and weeping on the opulent palace floor, having been brutally assaulted by the commander Kichaka for refusing his advances. Raja Ravi Varma masterfully orchestrates the tension in the royal court, contrasting the utter vulnerability and grief of Draupadi with the arrogant stance of Kichaka and the helpless dismay of King Virata seated upon his throne. Through rich theatrical lighting and profound psychological realism, Varma honors the eternal dignity of Draupadi while exposing the profound moral failing of the court around her, inviting the viewer into a timeless meditation on honor, suffering, and divine justice.

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