शृंगार· Shringara
01रात होते-प्रात होते
Raat Hote-Prat Hote
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'
1 verse · ~14 lines · 1 min
Shringara
प्रतीक्षा-गीत
Prateeksha Geet
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' 1 min read 3 versesप्रतीक्षागीतमीत
3 verses · ~1 min
हर किसी के भीतर एक गीत सोता है जो इसी का प्रतीक्षमान होता है कि कोई उसे छू कर जगा दे जमी परतें पिघला दे और एक धार बहा दे।
पर ओ मेरे प्रतीक्षित मीत प्रतीक्षा स्वयं भी तो है एक गीत जिसे मैने बार बार जाग कर गाया है जब-जब तुम ने मुझे जगाया है।
उसी को तो आज भी गाता हूँ क्यों कि चौंक- चौंक कर रोज़ तुम्हें नया पहचानता हूँ- यद्यपि सदा से ठीक वैसा ही जानता हूँ।
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
Usha Dreaming
In this evocative masterpiece, Raja Ravi Varma captures the ethereal moment when Princess Usha, daughter of the formidable Asura king Banasura, is visited in her sleep by the vision of Aniruddha. The painting breathes life into the Puranic legend of a love that transcends the physical realm. Usha lies in a state of tranquil slumber, her form illuminated by a golden, dreamlike glow, while the apparition of her future lover, Aniruddha, appears behind her like a soft, translucent shadow. Varma masterfully blends European academic techniques with the spiritual depth of Indian mythology, turning a classic tale of longing into a timeless meditation on the nature of destiny and the heart, which seeks its companion even before the eyes have opened to behold them.
Open the viewer →
If this held you
Four more, in the same key.
Chosen for their rasa and their register, not their popularity. Each one carries some part of what Prateeksha Geet carries.
