शान्त· Shanta
01परिभाषा
Paribhasha
Geet Chaturvedi
10 verses · ~30 lines · 2 min
1 verses · ~1 min
हवा से नहीं, उससे पूछो: वह शब्दों से अब तक अदृश्य क्यों रही? शब्दों से नहीं, उससे जानो: वह शब्दों की पकड़ में क्यों नहीं आती? मौन से नहीं, उससे पता करो: उसका ठिकाना आवाज़ों से दूर कितना दूर और कहाँ है?
इति
The Poet
अशोक वाजपेयी
Ashok Vajpeyi
1941 · 2008
Ashok Vajpeyi occupies a towering position in contemporary Hindi letters as both a prolific poet and a master architect of cultural institutions. Born in 1941 in Durg, he joined the civil service and subsequently shaped India's modern arts landscape by founding institutions like Bharat Bhavan. Despite his immense public responsibilities, his poetry remains fiercely dedicated to the intimate and the personal. He views poetry as a civilizational defense against the crushing impersonality of the modern world. In collections like Shaher Ab Bhi Sambhavana Hai and his Sahitya Akademi Award winning Kahin Nahin Wahin, Vajpeyi explores the themes of love, death, nature, and absence with remarkable linguistic precision. He writes in free verse, employing a sparse and exact vocabulary to capture fleeting moments of domestic quiet or sudden metaphysical dread. His work has been translated across the globe, bringing modern Hindi sensibilities to a vast international audience. Vajpeyi demonstrates that a writer can navigate the complex machinery of the state while keeping the solitary flame of the poetic conscience brilliantly alive.
Paired Painting
Sarasvati with her sitar and peacock
Raja Ravi Varma stands as a monumental figure in the history of Indian art, bridging the gap between traditional iconography and Western realism. In this sublime depiction of Sarasvati, the goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts, Varma humanizes the divine through a masterful use of light and gentle form. She sits in quiet grace upon a rocky outcrop, her presence harmonizing with the natural world. Beside her, the peacock, a symbol of beauty and integrity, bows in reverence to the music flowing from her veena. This chromolithograph was one of the many produced by his press, an innovation that allowed sacred images to enter the homes of ordinary families across India, forever changing the way the nation visualized its deities.
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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 Usse Puchho carries.
