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किसी रात को मेरी नींद चानक उचट जाती है आँख खुल जाती है मैं सोचने लगता हूँ कि जिन वैज्ञानिकों ने अणु अस्त्रों का आविष्कार किया था वे हिरोशिमा-नागासाकी के भीषण नरसंहार के समाचार सुनकर रात को कैसे सोए होंगे? क्या उन्हें एक क्षण के लिए सही ये अनुभूति नहीं हुई कि उनके हाथों जो कुछ हुआ अच्छा नहीं हुआ!
यदि हुई, तो वक़्त उन्हें कटघरे में खड़ा नहीं करेगा किन्तु यदि नहीं हुई तो इतिहास उन्हें कभी माफ़ नहीं करेगा!
इति
The Poet
अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
1924 · 2018
History offers, very rarely, the spectacle of a man who carries two entirely distinct and equally demanding vocations simultaneously, not one masking the other, not one subordinate to the other, but both fully alive and fully authentic. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was statesman and poet with equal integrity, and this duality was not a paradox to be explained but a wholeness to be witnessed. As Prime Minister, he navigated nuclear tests, Kargil, the Lahore Bus Yatra, and the complex geopolitics of a rising nation with a gravity and steadiness that history continues to assess. But when he set down the instruments of power and lifted the pen, he became something else entirely, a solitary voice in conversation with the deepest questions of existence. His poems do not announce themselves. They arrive quietly, like a man who has seen too much to need to raise his voice. They speak of loneliness within crowds, of the strange distance between public duty and private grief, of the question that haunts every thinking person who has wielded great responsibility: what was it all for? Born on Christmas Day in Gwalior in 1924, Vajpayee passed into the ages in 2018, leaving a dual inheritance, a republic he helped steady, and a body of verse that ensured the man beneath the statesman would never be forgotten.
Paired Painting
The Battle of Kurukshetra
This painting captures the profound stillness and intense anticipation just before the great war of Kurukshetra begins. At the center, Lord Krishna serves as the divine charioteer for Arjuna, guiding him through a moment of supreme moral and spiritual crisis. The vast armies of elephants, horses, and warriors stretch across the horizon, representing the immense weight of duty, righteousness, and the eternal struggle between good and evil. Through vibrant colors and dramatic composition, the artwork invites the viewer into the sacred space of the Bhagavad Gita, where earthly conflict becomes the backdrop for timeless spiritual revelation.
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