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कब किसने कहा, प्रखर था स्वर कैसी थी विषम परिस्थिति, पर- निर्द्वन्द्व भाव, से उपजे आखर क्षतशीश मगर, नतशीश नहीं।
संघर्षमयी वाणी उपजी, जीवन-संकट से त्राण मिला जन-मन-लेखा उद्धोष हुआ क्षतशीश मगर नतशीश नहीं।
संकल्पशील सदवृत्ति जगी सब ऊहापोह समाप्त हुआ नि:संशय गूँजा युद्ध घोष क्षतशीश मगर नतशीश नहीं।
स्वप्न के भीतर स्वप्न
स्वप्न-भूमि के कितने स्तर मिलते हैं किसी के स्वप्न में मैं दूसरे के स्वप्न में वह ब्रह्म को सृष्टि में शिव शिव की कल्पना में विष्णु महाकाली सब को निगलती हुई उवलता की ओर सतत तैरती हुई दिवा-रात्रि की तरह क्रमेण ढलता जीवन। मधुमय आलोक-पुंज छत्ता बनाता हुआ। रस टपकाता हुआ। तारों-सा टूट-टूट गिरता अकस्मात। आकाश गंगाएं दिव्यता की ज्योति-सी उभरती, घिरती, बिखरती गतिमान बनी रहती सूर्य की झालर मीलों तक फैलती लहराती बल खाती अणुओं की शक्ति का अपार पारावार अकल्पनीय फिर भी रमणीय साथ ही असहनीय।
इति
The Poet
जगदीश गुप्त
Jagdish Gupta
1924 · 2001
Jagdish Gupta was a defining architect of the Nayi Kavita or New Poetry movement, a pivotal era that completely reshaped the landscape of Hindi literature. Born in 1924, he refused to let modern Hindi verse stagnate in the predictable rhythms of older romantic traditions. Alongside literary giants like Ramswaroop Chaturvedi, he founded the highly influential journal Nayi Kavita in 1954, providing a vital platform for a new generation of experimental voices. Gupta wrote with a profoundly visual intellect, drawing deeply from classical mythology and ancient Indian aesthetics to explain the anxieties and fragmentation of the modern world. His poetry masterfully balances deep intellectual rigor with delicate emotional nuance. Recognized with the Bharat Bharati Award in 1998, he passed away in 2001, leaving behind a monumental legacy. He taught Hindi poetry how to look at the complexities of the contemporary age without ever losing its sense of classical beauty.
Paired Painting
Goddess Kali
Raja Ravi Varma transformed the visual landscape of India by translating revered deities from sacred texts into living, breathing presences on paper. Through the mass distribution of chromolithographs from his press, the fierce and liberating energy of Goddess Kali entered domestic shrines across the subcontinent. In this masterwork, the Divine Mother stands in her cosmic fury, subduing ego and illusion, yet radiating a profound maternal compassion that dissolves the fear of death. Her dark skin symbolizes the infinite, all-encompassing expanse of the cosmos, while the garland of heads and skirt of severed arms represent the shedding of attachments and the liberation of the soul from the endless cycle of karma.
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