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मैं वह धनु हूँ, जिसे साधने में प्रत्यंचा टूट गई है। स्खलित हुआ है बाण, यदपि ध्वनि दिग्दिगन्त में फूट गई है-- प्रलय-स्वर है वह, या है बस मेरी लज्जाजनक पराजय, या कि सफलता! कौन कहेगा क्या उस में है विधि का आशय! क्या मेरे कर्मों का संचय मुझ को चिन्ता छूट गई है-- मैं बस जानूँ, मैं धनु हूँ, जिस की प्रत्यंचा टूट गई है!
लाहौर, 15 जून, 1935
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.
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