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ताजमहल की छाया में
Tajmahal Ki Chhaya Mein
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'5 verses · ~1 min
मुझ में यह सामर्थ्य नहीं है मैं कविता कर पाऊँ, या कूँची में रंगों ही का स्वर्ण-वितान बनाऊँ । साधन इतने नहीं कि पत्थर के प्रासाद खड़े कर- तेरा, अपना और प्यार का नाम अमर कर जाऊँ।
पर वह क्या कम कवि है जो कविता में तन्मय होवे या रंगों की रंगीनी में कटु जग-जीवन खोवे? हो अत्यन्त निमग्न, एकरस, प्रणय देख औरों का- औरों के ही चरण-चिह्न पावन आँसू से धोवे?
हम-तुम आज खड़े हैं जो कन्धे से कन्धा मिलाये, देख रहे हैं दीर्घ युगों से अथक पाँव फैलाये व्याकुल आत्म-निवेदन-सा यह दिव्य कल्पना-पक्षी: क्यों न हमारा ह्र्दय आज गौरव से उमड़ा आये!
मैं निर्धन हूँ,साधनहीन; न तुम ही हो महारानी, पर साधन क्या? व्यक्ति साधना ही से होता दानी! जिस क्षण हम यह देख सामनें स्मारक अमर प्रणय का प्लावित हुए, वही क्षण तो है अपनी अमर कहानी!
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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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