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Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'1 verses · ~1 min
किसी का सत्य था, मैंने संदर्भ से जोड़ दिया। कोई मधु-कोष काट लाया था, मैंने निचोड़ लिया। किसी की उक्ति में गरिमा थी, मैंने उसे थोड़ा-सा सँवार दिया किसी की संवेदना में आग का-सा ताप था मैंने दूर हटते-हटते उसे धिक्कार दिया। कोई हुनरमंद था: मैंने देखा और कहा, 'यों!' थका भारवाही पाया- घुड़का या कोंच दिया, 'क्यों?' किसी की पौध थी, मैंने सींची और बढ़ने पर अपना ली, किसी की लगायी लता थी, मैंने दो बल्ली गाड़ उसी पर छवा ली किसी की कली थी: मैंने अनदेखे में बीन ली, किसी की बात थी। मैंने मुँह से छीन ली। यों मैं कवि हूँ, आधुनिक हूँ, नया हूँ: काव्य-तत्त्व की खोज में कहाँ नहीं गया हूँ? चाहता हूँ आप मुझे एक-एक शब्द सराहते हुए पढ़ें। पर प्रतिमा- अरे वह तो जैसी आपको रुचे आप स्वयं गढ़ें।
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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Nair Lady Adorning Her Hair
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