
ऐ बादल!
Ae Baadal!
Shriprakash Shukla
5 verses · ~10 lines · 1 min
№ MMXXVI
RACHNA · A LIVING ARCHIVE
Loading the archive
MM · XXVI

Shanta
Haan Aisa Bhi Ho Sakta Hai
Amitabh Tripathi ‘Amit’4 verses · ~2 min
एक बूँद गहरा पानी भी सौ जलयान डुबो सकता है हाँ! ऐसा भी हो सकता है
पीड़ा की अनछुई तरंगे जब मानस-तट से टकरातीं कुछ फेनिल टीसें बिखराकर आस-रेणु भी संग ले जातीं इस तरंग-क्रीड़ा से मन को बहला तो लेता हूँ फिर भी धैर्य-पयोनिधि का इक आँसू सौ बड़वानल बो सकता है हाँ! ऐसा भी हो सकता है
तथाकथित प्रेमों में उलझी देखीं देह-कथायें कितनी क्षण-उत्साही त्वरित वेग की चमकीली उल्कायें कितनी पोर-पोर रससिक्त दिखा है किन्तु कलश रीता है फिर भी सत्य-स्नेह का दावानल तो चित्ताकाश बिलो सकता है हाँ! ऐसा भी हो सकता है
लक्ष्य, अलक्ष्य रहा जीवन भर थकित पाँव, पड़ गये फफोले प्रत्याशा में हमने कितने सुविज्ञात संबन्ध टटोले मेघाच्छन्न अमा-रजनी में किंचित शब्द दिखा दें रस्ता किन्तु दिवस के कोलाहल में राही प्रायः खो सकता है हाँ! ऐसा भी हो सकता है
इति
The Poet
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.

Paired Painting
Rupasundari
In this transcendent canvas, Raja Ravi Varma captures an ethereal vision of feminine loveliness, enveloping his subject in an atmosphere of quiet mystery and divine grace. The painting showcases the master's profound ability to merge Western academic realism with Indian classical aesthetics, rendering translucent drapery that shimmers softly against a deep, twilight background. Every stroke breathes life into the figure, creating a timeless tribute to the eternal beauty and spiritual depth embodied by Indian womanhood.
Open the viewer →
If this held you
Chosen for their rasa and their register, not their popularity. Each one carries some part of what Haan Aisa Bhi Ho Sakta Hai carries.