शृंगार· Shringara
01तुम्हारी पलकों का कँपना
Tumhari Palkon Ka Kanpna
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'
4 verses · ~7 lines · 1 min
Shringara
क्षण-भर सम्मोहन छा जावे!
Kshana-Bhar Sammohan Cha Jaave!
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' 1 min read 2 versesसम्मोहनhypnosisक्षण
2 verses · ~1 min
क्षण-भर सम्मोहन छा जावे! क्षण-भर स्तम्भित हो जावे यह अधुनातन जीवन का संकुल- ज्ञान-रूढि़ की अनमिट लीकें, ह्रत्पट से पल-भर जावें धुल, मेरा यह आन्दोलित मानस, एक निमिष निश्चल हो जावे!
मेरा ध्यान अकम्पित है, मैं क्षण में छवि कर लूँगा अंकित, स्तब्ध हृदय फिर नाम-प्रणय से होगा दु:सह गति से स्पन्दित! एक निमिष-भर, बस! फिर विधि का घन प्रलयंकर बरसा आवे क्रूर काल-कर का कराल शर मुझ को तेरे वर-सा आवे! क्षण-भर सम्मोहन छा जावे!
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
At the Bath
Raja Ravi Varma possessed a profound ability to capture the quiet, domestic sanctity of Indian life. In this piece, he elevates a simple moment of personal grooming into a scene of classical grace. The subject stands upon stone steps, partially draped in a simple white cloth, reflecting a sense of vulnerability and modest poise that defines the feminine ideal in Varma's oeuvre. The artist masterfully employs light and shadow to articulate the texture of the fabric and the soft glow of the subject's skin, grounding the figure in a timeless, meditative atmosphere. It is a work that breathes with the stillness of water and the hushed intimacy of a private sanctuary, inviting the viewer to contemplate beauty in its most elemental and unadorned form.
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If this held you
Four more, in the same key.
Chosen for their rasa and their register, not their popularity. Each one carries some part of what Kshana-Bhar Sammohan Cha Jaave! carries.
