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उस के दो लघु नयन-तारकों की झपकी ने मुझ को-अच्छे-भले सयाने को!-पल भर में कर दिया अन्धा मेरा सीधा, सरल, रसभरा जीवन
एकाएक उलझ कर बन गया गोरख-धन्धा और ज्योतिषी! तुम अपने मैले-चीकट पोथी-पत्रे फैला कर,
पोंगा पंडित! मुझे पढ़ाते हो पट्टी, रख दोगे इतने बड़े गगन के सारे तारों के रहस्य समझा कर?
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
Mohini and Rugmangada
This profound canvas brings to life a poignant tale from Hindu mythology, capturing King Rugmangada under the divine and enchanting spell of Mohini, the celestial enchantress avatar of Lord Vishnu. Raja Ravi Varma masterfully portrays the intense emotional gravity of the scene, where human devotion, divine intervention, and tragic trials intertwine within a sacred temple courtyard. The artist breathes life into the Puranic narrative, translating classical literature into breathtaking visual drama that resonates deeply with the spiritual ethos of India.
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