शान्त· Shanta
01तुम कागज पर लिखते हो
Tum Kagaz Par Likhate Ho
Bhawani Prasad Mishra
3 verses · ~17 lines · 1 min
8 verses · ~2 min
नमक दुःख है धरती का और उसका स्वाद भी! पृथ्वी का तीन भाग नमकीन पानी है और आदमी का दिल नमक का पहाड़ कमज़ोर है दिल नमक का कितनी जल्दी पसीज जाता है! गड़ जाता है शर्म से जब फेंकी जाती हैं थालियाँ दाल में नमक कम या ज़रा तेज़ होने पर!
वो जो खड़े हैं न- सरकारी दफ्तर- शाही नमकदान हैं
बड़ी नफासत से छिड़क देते हैं हरदम हमारे जले पर नमक!
जिनके चेहरे पर नमक है पूछिए उन औरतों से - कितना भारी पड़ता है उनको उनके चेहरे का नमक!
जिन्हें नमक की कीमत करनी होती है अदा - उन नमकहलालों से रंज रखता है महासागर!
दुनिया में होने न दीं उन्होंने क्रांतियाँ, रहम खा गए दुश्मनों पर!
गाँधी जी जानते थे नमक की कीमत और अमरूदों वाली मुनिया भी!
दुनिया में कुछ और रहे-न-रहे रहेगा नमक- ईश्वर के आंसू और आदमी का पसीना - ये ही वो नमक है जिससे थिराई रहेगी ये दुनिया.
इति
The Poet
अनामिका
Anamika
1961 · 2020
Dr. Anamika made historic strides in contemporary literature by becoming the very first female poet to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi poetry in the entire sixty five year history of the prize. Born in 1961 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, she has spent decades carving out a fiercely intelligent and deeply empathetic space for women in Indian letters. Through acclaimed collections like Tokri Mein Digant, for which she won her monumental award in 2020, she examines the complex architecture of patriarchy, domestic labor, and female identity. She does not write with loud slogans. Instead, she explores the female experience through the quiet, profound realities of everyday survival, using conversational language to unearth deep philosophical truths. Beyond her poetry, she is a respected academic, novelist, and translator who bridges the gap between Hindi and English literary traditions. Anamika stands as a living icon of feminist literature, giving a permanent voice to the silenced generations of women who came before her.
Paired Painting
Woman with Pitchers
B. Prabha remains one of the most poignant chroniclers of the lives of Indian rural women. Her work transcends simple depiction, offering instead a deeply empathetic gaze into the quiet dignity, burdens, and resilience of women who remain largely invisible to the outside world. This painting captures a moment of stillness, where the geometric weight of the terracotta pots balances the elegant, elongated forms of the figures. The artist possessed a rare ability to imbue the simple act of carrying water with the gravity of a spiritual ritual, reminding us that there is profound beauty in the daily labor of those who sustain the lifeblood of rural communities.
Open the viewer →
If this held you
Four more, in the same key.
Chosen for their rasa and their register, not their popularity. Each one carries some part of what Namak carries.
