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Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'5 verses · ~1 min
चाँदनी चुपचाप सारी रात- सूने आँगन में जाल रचती रही ।
मेरी रूपहीन अभिलाषा अधूरेपन की मद्धिम- आँच पर तचती रही ।
व्यथा मेरी अनकही आनन्द की सम्भावना के मनश्चित्रों से परचती रही ।
मैं दम साधे रहा मन में अलक्षित आँधी मचती रही ।
प्रात बस इतना कि मेरी बात सारी रात उघड़ कर वासना का रूप लेने से बचती रही ।
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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