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एक तीखी आँच ने इस जन्म का हर पल छुआ, आता हुआ दिन छुआ हाथों से गुजरता कल छुआ हर बीज, अँकुआ, पेड़-पौधा, फूल-पत्ती, फल छुआ जो मुझे छूने चली हर उस हवा का आँचल छुआ ... प्रहर कोई भी नहीं बीता अछूता आग के संपर्क से दिवस, मासों और वर्षों के कड़ाहों में मैं उबलता रहा पानी-सा परे हर तर्क से एक चौथाई उमर यों खौलते बीती बिना अवकाश सुख कहाँ यों भाप बन-बन कर चुका, रीता, भटकता छानता आकाश आह! कैसा कठिन ... कैसा पोच मेरा भाग! आग चारों और मेरे आग केवल भाग! सुख नहीं यों खौलने में सुख नहीं कोई, पर अभी जागी नहीं वह चेतना सोई, वह, समय की प्रतीक्षा में है, जगेगी आप ज्यों कि लहराती हुई ढकने उठाती भाप! अभी तो यह आग जलती रहे, जलती रहे जिंदगी यों ही कड़ाहों में उबलती रहे ।
इति
The Poet
दुष्यंत कुमार
Dushyant Kumar
1933 · 1975
Dushyant Kumar did something that required a radical courage most artists never summon. He took a form synonymous with moonlit nights and the ache of unfulfilled romance and dragged it into the burning lanes where injustice stank and the ordinary man had no language for his helplessness. Born in 1931 in Uttar Pradesh, he dismantled the ornamental tradition of the Urdu ghazal and rebuilt it in Hindi as a weapon of the dispossessed. His singular collection Saaye Mein Dhoop became one of the most quietly devastating documents in the entire tradition of modern Hindi literature. The Emergency of 1975 gave his verses a context that proved them prophetic. Unlike mere political poetry, his words outlasted their moment to become permanent fixtures in the vocabulary of Indian dissent. He wrote not with a scholar's distance but with the shaking hands of someone who had looked injustice in the face and refused to flinch. He died at forty four, leaving behind a body of work so concentrated and incandescent that its light has not dimmed in half a century. To read Dushyant Kumar is to understand that poetry's highest function is not consolation but confrontation.
Paired Painting
At The Bath
Raja Ravi Varma breathed a revolutionary spirit into Indian art by marrying Western oil techniques with the rich inner grace of Indian life. In this intimate portrayal, a young woman stands quietly by a water tank, wrapped in a damp white garment that clings gently to her form. Her cascading dark hair and contemplative gaze invite the viewer into a moment of pure, unhurried solitude. The play of light across her shoulders and the stone steps reflects Varma's deep mastery of chiaroscuro, turning a simple daily ritual into an enduring poetry of form and light.
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