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वैर की परनालियों में हँस-हँस के हमने सींची जो राजनीति की रेती उसमें आज बह रही खूँ की नदियाँ हैं कल ही जिसमें ख़ाक-मिट्टी कह के हमने थूका था घृणा की आज उसमें पक गई खेती फ़सल कटने को अगली सर्दियाँ हैं।
मेरठ, 15 अक्टूबर, 1947
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
The Goddess Bhairavi Devi with Shiva
This profound painting depicts Bhairavi, a ferocious and radiant form of the Great Goddess, seated upon the prone body of Shiva in the desolate stillness of a cremation ground. She is the embodiment of the fierce heat of transformation, representing the destructive aspect of the divine that clears the path for ultimate realization. Her presence is at once terrifying and deeply liberating, as she holds the instruments of severance and grace. Shiva looks upon her with quiet devotion, acknowledging her as the power of consciousness that animates the universe. The smoldering fires and scattered remains signify the dissolution of the ego, inviting the seeker to transcend the transient nature of worldly existence through the power of her divine wrath.
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