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एक क्षण भर और रहने दो मुझे अभिभूत फिर जहाँ मैने संजो कर और भी सब रखी हैं ज्योति शिखायें वहीं तुम भी चली जाना शांत तेजोरूप!
एक क्षण भर और लम्बे सर्जना के क्षण कभी भी हो नहीं सकते! बूँद स्वाती की भले हो बेधती है मर्म सीपी का उसी निर्मम त्वरा से वज्र जिससे फोड़ता चट्टान को भले ही फिर व्यथा के तम में बरस पर बरस बीतें एक मुक्तारूप को पकते!
दिल्ली, 17 मई, 1956
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
Tilottama
In the vast and ancient expanse of Hindu mythology, Tilottama stands as a symbol of divine perfection, created by the architect of the gods, Vishvakarma, to bring an end to the destructive pride of the demons Sunda and Upasunda. Raja Ravi Varma, with his masterful command over oil pigments, breathed life into this legend. He captured her not merely as a mythological figure, but as an ethereal presence suspended between the heavens and the earth. Her form, draped in diaphanous golden fabrics that seem to dissolve into the clouds, reflects the transient beauty of the celestial realm. This painting serves as a profound meditation on the power of grace to balance the chaos of the universe, painted by an artist who dedicated his life to marrying the sensibilities of Western realism with the timeless depth of Indian epics.
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