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ग़र चंद तवारीखी तहरीर बदल दोगे

Gar Chand Tawarikhi Tahrir Badal Doge

Adam Gondvi

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4 verses · ~1 min

गर चंद तवारीखी तहरीर बदल दोगे क्या इनसे किसी कौम की तक़दीर बदल दोगे

जायस से वो हिन्दी की दरिया जो बह के आई मोड़ोगे उसकी धारा या नीर बदल दोगे ?

जो अक्स उभरता है रसख़ान की नज्मों में क्या कृष्ण की वो मोहक तस्वीर बदल दोगे ?

तारीख़ बताती है तुम भी तो लुटेरे हो क्या द्रविड़ों से छीनी जागीर बदल दोगे ?

इति

Rasa: Raudra
Stanzas: 4
Lines: 8
Reading time: ~1 min
Form: Ghazal
Metre: ghazal
Rhyme: AA

The atmosphere is one of defiant indignation, radiating the fierce, confrontational energy of raudra rasa as it challenges the fragile permanence of power against the tide of collective memory. A painting of this poem would depict a colossal, weathered scroll being forcibly torn by shadowed, aggressive hands, while in the background, the serene, flowing waters of Jaisi’s literary legacy and the iridescent, flute-playing silhouette of Raskhan’s Krishna emerge unscathed, casting light upon the dark, looting figures attempting to rewrite their own violent histories. The composition relies on the jarring contrast between the timeless, indelible beauty of syncretic cultural icons and the pathetic, fleeting efforts of revisionists to obscure the past. Ultimately, the work conveys a tone of sharp, intellectual rebellion, asserting that historical truth remains an immutable current that no political artifice can truly redirect or erase.

ग़र चंद तवारीखी तहरीर बदल दोगे (Gar Chand Tawarikhi Tahrir Badal Doge), by Adam Gondvi runs to 8 lines across 4 stanzas, set as Four couplets (sher) of a political ghazal.. Its governing rasa is Raudra, shaded by Shanta. The metre is ghazal. Rhyme falls as AA.

Written in response to political attempts to rewrite history textbooks and alter historical narratives for communal polarization.

Read it for इतिहास बदलने की कोशिशों पर तीखा प्रहार and सांस्कृतिक समन्वय और साझा विरासत की रक्षा. 4 words in it carry older or regional senses, so the poem rewards a second pass.

The verse is hung beside Krishna Battling Banasura: The painting pulses with a tense, heroic atmosphere charged with the imminent clash of divine order and chaotic defiance. Lord Krishna, depicted with dark skin and a resolute posture, stands opposite the thousand-armed…

Words worth pausing on

तवारीखी: ऐतिहासिक
तहरीर: लिखावट या दस्तावेज
जायस: मलिक मुहम्मद जायसी का जन्मस्थान (यहाँ सूफी काव्य के संदर्भ में)
अक्स: प्रतिबिंब या परछाई

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Adam Gondvi

1947 · 2011

If poetry exists to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, Adam Gondvi was Hindi literature's most uncompromising voice. Born Ram Nath Singh on October 22, 1947, in the Gonda district of Uttar Pradesh, he lived the quiet life of a farmer while writing verses of fierce revolutionary anger. Gondvi took the delicate and traditionally romantic form of the Urdu ghazal and turned it into a weapon. He used its strict meter to expose the hypocrisy of the caste system, the cruelty of feudal oppression, and the deep corruption within Indian politics. When he wrote that he would take the reader to the alleys of the Dalits, he was challenging mainstream literature to abandon its comfortable illusions and confront the starving reality of rural India. He rejected political patronage and lived his entire life in modest circumstances before passing away in 2011. Adam Gondvi remains the fearless conscience of the marginalized. His words strike with undeniable force.