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बदरिया थम-थनकर झर री! सागर पर मत भरे अभागन गागर को भर री!
बदरिया थम-थमकर झर री! एक-एक, दो-दो बूँदों में बंधा सिन्धु का मेला, सहस-सहस बन विहंस उठा है यह बूँदों का रेला। तू खोने से नहीं बावरी, पाने से डर री!
बदरिया थम-थमकर झर री! जग आये घनश्याम देख तो, देख गगन पर आगी, तूने बूंद, नींद खितिहर ने साथ-साथ ही त्यागी। रही कजलियों की कोमलता झंझा को बर री!
बदरिया थम-थमकर झर री!
इति
The Poet
माखनलाल चतुर्वेदी
Makhanlal Chaturvedi
1889 · 1968
There is a poem that lives at the absolute center of the Indian literary imagination of sacrifice a poem in which a flower, offered for worship, instead asks to be pressed into the wreath of a martyr, to fall upon a brave man's chest as he marches into the cannon's mouth. That poem is Pushp Ki Abhilasha The Flower's Longing and its author, Makhanlal Chaturvedi, composed it with the hand of a man who had already offered himself in exactly the same spirit. He was imprisoned multiple times by British colonial authorities for his journalism and his poetry. He was the editor of Prabha, one of the luminous literary political journals of the independence era. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi's very first prize in 1955, and the Padma Bhushan followed. But what no institutional recognition can fully capture is the texture of his moral life the extraordinary combination of burning patriotic fire and absolute personal humility, a man who wrote about martyrdom while quietly being available for it himself. Born in Babai in 1889, he lived to see the independence he had helped dream into existence, and then he wrote on for two decades more, finding in a free India new obligations for the literary conscience. He is the poet of pure sacrifice not sacrifice celebrated from a distance, but sacrifice inhabited, practiced, and offered without expectation of return.
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Royal Procession
This exquisite work captures the divine majesty of Lord Krishna as the supreme charioteer and ruler, presiding over a grand royal procession. Against a dramatic backdrop of descending monsoon clouds and glowing celestial mandalas, the dark skinned deity radiates spiritual light and protection. The intricate details of the chariot wheels, the ornate floral carpets, and the vibrant lotus blossoms below reflect a deeply devotional universe where every leaf and ornament sings praises to the divine. The artisan lavished immense care upon the patterned garments and the halo of peacock feathers, transporting the viewer into a timeless realm of sacred mythology and royal splendor.
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