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The Disrobing of Draupadi

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Amitabh Tripathi ‘Amit’
1 min read 5 versesमीरजम्हूरियतप्रेम

5 verses · ~1 min

अक्सर ही उपदेश करे है, जाने क्या - क्या बोले है। पहले ’अमित’ को देखा होता अब तो बहुत मुहँ खोले है।

वो बेफ़िक्री, वो अलमस्ती, गुजरे दिन के किस्से हैं, बाजारों की रक़्क़ासा, अब सबकी जेब टटोले है।

जम्हूरी निज़ाम दुनियाँ में इन्क़िलाब लाया लेकिन, ये डाकू को और फ़कीर को एक तराजू तोले है।

उसका मक़तब, उसका ईमाँ, उसका मज़हब कोई नहीं, जो भी प्रेम की भाषा बोले, साथ उसी के हो ले है।

बियाबान सी लगती दुनिया हर रौनक काग़ज़ का फूल कोलाहल की इस नगरी में चैन कहाँ जो सो ले है

इति

Amitabh Tripathi ‘Amit’

The Poet

अमिताभ त्रिपाठी 'अमित'

Amitabh Tripathi ‘Amit’

Amitabh Tripathi 'Amit' belongs to a rare class of contemporary Hindi poets who write to hold up an unflinching mirror to society. His verse is stripped of complex academic jargon and strikes directly at the center of modern Indian realities. In works like his celebrated poem "Bas Itna Sa Samachar Hai" (This is All the News There Is), Tripathi captures the everyday ironies, widespread corruption, and moral compromises of the present age with devastating precision. He dismantles hollow idealism and gives a powerful voice to the common man navigating a broken system. To read Amitabh Tripathi is to be awakened from civic slumber. His poems are not merely complaints; they are urgent pleas for a return to collective conscience and integrity.

The Disrobing of Draupadi

Paired Painting

The Disrobing of Draupadi

This profound work depicts the most tragic and pivotal moment in the Mahabharata, the Vastraharan or the disrobing of Draupadi. We witness the agony of a virtuous queen subjected to the cruelty of the Kauravas in the royal court of Hastinapura. King Dhritarashtra sits helplessly above, surrounded by silent elders, while Dushasana attempts the unthinkable. The painting captures the raw emotional tension of this dark hour, standing as a testament to the fragility of dharma when confronted by unchecked hubris and greed. It serves as a somber reminder of the moral decay that eventually led to the cataclysmic Kurukshetra war.

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