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मलयज का झोंका बुला गया खेलते से स्पर्श से रोम रोम को कंपा गया जागो जागो जागो सखि़ वसन्त आ गया जागो
पीपल की सूखी खाल स्निग्ध हो चली सिरिस ने रेशम से वेणी बाँध ली नीम के भी बौर में मिठास देख हँस उठी है कचनार की कली टेसुओं की आरती सजा के बन गयी वधू वनस्थली
स्नेह भरे बादलों से व्योम छा गया जागो जागो जागो सखि़ वसन्त आ गया जागो
चेत उठी ढीली देह में लहू की धार बेंध गयी मानस को दूर की पुकार गूंज उठा दिग दिगन्त चीन्ह के दुरन्त वह स्वर बार "सुनो सखि! सुनो बन्धु! प्यार ही में यौवन है यौवन में प्यार!"
आज मधुदूत निज गीत गा गया जागो जागो जागो सखि वसन्त आ गया, जागो!
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
Dushyanta and Shakuntala
In this tender scene, Raja Ravi Varma captures a defining moment from the timeless play Abhijnana Shakuntalam by Kalidasa. King Dushyanta, captivated by the forest maiden Shakuntala, is depicted in the idyllic wilderness. The presence of the gentle deer, looking up toward the couple, signifies the harmony between the royal visitor and the serene life of the hermitage. Ravi Varma masterfully balances the regal attire of the king with the rustic, graceful elegance of Shakuntala, grounding their divine romance in a tangible, deeply moving reality that has defined Indian visual culture for generations.
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