3 verses · ~1 min
होने और न होने की सीमा-रेखा पर सदा बने रहने का असिधारा-व्रत जिस ने ठाना-सहज ठन गया जिस से- वही जिया। पा गया अर्थ। बार-बार जो जिये-मरे
यह नहीं कि वे सब बार-बार तरवार-घाट पर पीते रहे नये अर्थों का पानी। अर्थ एक है: मिलता है तो एक बार: (गुड़-सा गूँगे को!)
और उसे दोहराना दोहरे भ्रम में बह जाना है।
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
Parashurama, the Sixth Avatar of Lord Vishnu
Parashurama stands as a formidable figure in the Hindu tradition, revered as the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu. He is the eternal warrior sage, a Brahmin who wields the axe to restore cosmic order, or Dharma, when it is threatened by the corruption of kings. In this masterfully rendered lithograph from the Ravi Varma Press, we see him portrayed not merely as a destructive force, but as a grounded, meditative presence. His posture upon the rock, clutching his signature parashu, or battle axe, reflects a moment of quiet strength before the storm of his divine mission. The print served as a bridge between the divine and the everyday, allowing devotees to contemplate the ferocious yet disciplined character of this immortal sage within their own sacred home spaces.
Open the viewer →