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हवा कहीं से उठी, बही- ऊपर ही ऊपर चली गयी। पथ सोया ही रहा किनारे के क्षुप चौंके नहीं
न काँपी डाल, न पत्ती कोई दरकी। अंग लगी लघु ओस-बूँद भी एक न ढरकी। वन-खंडी में सधे खड़े पर अपनी ऊँचाई में खोये-से चीड़ जाग कर सिहर उठे सनसना गये।
एक स्वर नाम वही अनजाना साथ हवा के गा गये। ऊपर ही ऊपर जो हवा ने गाया देवदारु ने दुहराया, जो हिमचोटियों पर झलका,
जो साँझ के आकाश से छलका-वह किस ने पाया जिस ने आयत्त करने की आकांक्षा का हाथ बढ़ाया? आह! वह तो मेरे दे दिये गये हृदय में उतरा, मेरे स्वीकारी आँसू में ढलका:
वह अनजाना अनपहचाना ही आया। वह इन सब के-और मेरे-माध्यम से अपने में अपने को लाया, अपने में समाया।
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.
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Morning Scene of the Himalayas
In this breathtaking depiction of the Himalayas, the artist invites us to witness the quiet, sacred dawn awakening over the world's highest sanctuary. The majestic snow-clad peaks catch the very first rays of golden light, illuminating the ancient mountains with an ethereal, divine glow that pierces through the gentle morning mist. In the foreground, silhouetted trees frame the vast expanse, drawing the viewer into a meditative contemplation of nature's eternal grandeur. The artist masterfully translates the atmospheric serenity and spiritual stillness of the high mountains into tangible pigments, offering a visual prayer of devotion to the sacred abodes of the gods.
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