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शरद चांदनी बरसी अँजुरी भर कर पी लो
ऊँघ रहे हैं तारे सिहरी सरसी ओ प्रिय कुमुद ताकते अनझिप क्षण में तुम भी जी लो ।
सींच रही है ओस हमारे गाने घने कुहासे में झिपते चेहरे पहचाने
खम्भों पर बत्तियाँ खड़ी हैं सीठी ठिठक गये हैं मानों पल-छिन आने-जाने
उठी ललक हिय उमगा अनकहनी अलसानी जगी लालसा मीठी, खड़े रहो ढिंग गहो हाथ पाहुन मन-भाने, ओ प्रिय रहो साथ भर-भर कर अँजुरी पी लो
बरसी शरद चांदनी मेरा अन्त:स्पन्दन तुम भी क्षण-क्षण जी लो!
इति
The Poet
अज्ञेय
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'
1911 · 1987
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan, universally known by his pen name Agyeya, completely rewired the circuitry of modern Hindi literature. Born in 1911 in a British archaeological camp in Uttar Pradesh, his life was as fiercely untraditional as his prose. Before he became the architect of the Prayogavaad (Experimentalism) movement, he was an active revolutionary who spent four years in British colonial prisons for attempting to help Bhagat Singh escape. In those prison cells, he began drafting Shekhar: Ek Jivani, a psychological novel that shocked the literary establishment with its unapologetic exploration of the individual ego. He rejected the prevailing romanticism of the era and instead assembled the Tar Saptak series, bringing together a new generation of poets who wrote in free verse about alienation, intellect, and the fractured modern psyche. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964 and the Jnanpith Award in 1978. Agyeya was a novelist, a combatant officer in World War II, a journalist, and a profound existential thinker. He gave Hindi literature the vocabulary to interrogate the inner self without the comfort of traditional morality.
Paired Painting
Devayani and Yayati
This evocative scene depicts the poignant meeting between Devayani, the daughter of the sage Shukracharya, and King Yayati. It captures a moment of deep mythological significance where fate intertwines the lives of a celestial princess and a mortal king. The artist portrays the nobility of their union with tender care, emphasizing the lush surroundings of the forest that mirror the burgeoning emotions of the encounter. Through the soft light and the deliberate posture of the figures, we see a story of destiny and divine connection that has echoed through the ages of Indian lore.
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