शान्त· Shanta
01नन्दा देवी-12
Nanda Devi-12
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'
2 verses · ~8 lines · 1 min
Shanta
सारस अकेले
Saras Akele
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' 1 min read 4 versesसारसप्रवासीसाँझ
4 verses · ~1 min
घिर रही है साँझ हो रहा है समय घर कर ले उदासी तौल अपने पंख, सारस दूर के इस देश में तू है प्रवासी!
रात! तारे हों न हों रव हीनता को सघनतर कर दे अंधेरा तू अदीन! लिये हिय में चित्र ज्योति प्रदेश का करना जहाँ तुझको सवेरा!
थिर गयी जो लहर, वह सो जाय तीर-तरु का बिम्ब भी अव्यक्त में खो जाय मेघ मरु मारुत मरण - अब आय जो सो आय!
कर नमन बीते दिवस को, धीर! दे उसी को सौंप यह अवसाद का लघु पल निकल चल! सारस अकेले!
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
Sunset on the Backwaters
C. Raja Raja Varma, the gifted younger brother of the legendary Raja Ravi Varma, possessed a sublime sensitivity for the landscape of his native Kerala. In this evocative piece from 1897, he captures the transition of the day as the sun descends behind the silhouette of palm trees. The painting radiates a quietude that is deeply spiritual, inviting the viewer to pause beside the still waters of the backwaters. It is a work of gentle observation, reflecting the artist's profound intimacy with the light, atmosphere, and rhythmic life of the land he held so dear.
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 Saras Akele carries.
