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याद का इक दिया सा जलता है। लौ पकड़ने को दिल मचलता है।
ख़्वाब हो या कि हक़ीक़त दुनियाँ, दम तो हर हाल में निकलता है।
वक़्त बेपीर है ये मान लिया, आदमी ही कहाँ पिघलता है।
सरनिगूँ[1] देख कर तुझे ऐ दोस्त, मुझको अपना वजूद[2] खलता है।
मौत के मुस्तकिल[3] तकाजों में, एक दिन और यूँ ही टलता है।
अर्श[4] पर शम्स[5] कमल कीचड़ में, नासमझ देख करके खिलता है।
हमनें इस तरह निभाये रिश्ते, जैसे कपडे़ कोई बदलता है।
कारवाँ जाने अब कहाँ पहुँचे, हर कोई अपनी चाल चलता है।
उनके मतलब का रास्ता अक्सर, मेरी मजबूरियों से मिलता है।
अपनी जिद छोड़ दूँ ’अमित’ लेकिन, उनका तेवर कहाँ बदलता है।
इति
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.
Paired Painting
Woman in Blue Sari
Hemendranath Mazumdar was an artist of profound sensitivity who chose to step away from the nationalist aesthetic of the Neo Bengal School to pursue a path of European academic realism. His work is a celebration of the feminine form, yet it is rarely ever just about the physical. In this masterpiece, the woman is seen from behind, a composition that protects her anonymity while drawing the viewer into her quiet world. The way the blue sari drapes across her body demonstrates Mazumdar's legendary skill in painting fabric: the deep indigo cloth appears heavy with emotion, contrasted by the translucent light hitting her white blouse. There is a small lotus flower visible through the fabric of her garment, a silent testament to the purity and grace that Mazumdar saw in his subjects. He was a painter who understood that true beauty lies in the moments between actions, in the stillness of a woman lost in her own thoughts, far from the gaze of the world.
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