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डरो मत शोषक भैया: पी लो मेरा रक्त ताज़ा है, मीठा है हृद्य है पी लो शोषक भैया: डरो मत।
शायद तुम्हें पचे नहीं-- अपना मेदा तुम देखो, मेरा क्या दोष है। मेरा रक्त मीठा तो है, पर पतला या हल्का भी हो इसका ज़िम्मा तो मैं नहीं ले सकता, शोषक भैया? जैसे कि सागर की लहर सुन्दर हो, यह तो ठीक, पर यह आश्वासन तो नहीं दे सकती कि किनारे को लील नहीं लेगी
डरो मत शोषक भैय: मेरा रक्त ताज़ा है, मेरी लहर भी ताज़ा और शक्तिशाली है। ताज़ा, जैसी भट्ठी में ढलते गए इस्पात की धार, शक्तिशाली, जैसे तिसूल: और पानीदार। पी लो, शोषक भैया: डरो मत।
मुझ से क्या डरना? वह मैं नहीं, वह तो तुम्हारा-मेरा सम्बन्ध है जो तुम्हारा काल है शोषक भैया!
दिल्ली, 1953
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
Dushasan Vadh
This poignant and dramatic artwork captures one of the most intense and emotionally charged moments of the Mahabharata war, the slaying of Dushasana by Bheema. Driven by the sacred vow to avenge the unspeakable humiliation suffered by Draupadi in the royal court, Bheema stands victorious and fierce on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. The imagery evokes a profound sense of divine justice and moral retribution, reminding humanity that adharma, no matter how powerful it temporarily seems, ultimately faces a reckoning. The turbulent sky and the chaotic mass of soldiers in the background amplify the tragic grandeur of a fratricidal war that forever altered the spiritual landscape of Bharat.
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