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ये अनाज की पूलें तेरे काँधें झूलें

Ye Anaaj Ki Poolen Tere Kaandhen Jhoolen

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ये अनाज की पूलें तेरे काँधें झूलें तेरा चौड़ा छाता रे जन-गण के भ्राता शिशिर, ग्रीष्म, वर्षा से लड़ते भू-स्वामी, निर्माता! कीच, धूल, गन्दगी बदन पर लेकर ओ मेहनतकश! गाता फिरे विश्व में भारत तेरा ही नव-श्रम-यश! तेरी एक मुस्कराहट पर वीर पीढ़ियाँ फूलें । ये अनाज की पूलें तेरे काँधें झूलें! इन भुजदंडों पर अर्पित सौ-सौ युग, सौ-सौ हिमगिरी सौ-सौ भागीरथी निछावर तेरे कोटि-कोटि शिर! ये उगी बिन उगी फ़सलें तेरी प्राण कहानी हर रोटी ने, रक्त बूँद ने तेरी छवि पहचानी! वायु तुम्हारी उज्ज्वल गाथा सूर्य तुम्हारा रथ है, बीहड़ काँटों भरा कीचमय एक तुम्हारा पथ है । यह शासन, यह कला, तपस्या तुझे कभी मत भूलें । ये अनाज की पूलें तेरे काँधें झूलें!

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Rasa: Veera
Stanzas: 1
Lines: 29
Reading time: ~1 min
Form: Geet (lyric song)
Metre: geet
Rhyme: irregular

The poem evokes a heroic and reverent atmosphere, portraying the laborer as a monumental, elemental force that sustains the civilization of India. A painting of this subject would feature a brawny, earth-stained farmer standing as a colossus, draped in heavy sheaves of golden grain, with the rugged, mud-caked landscape of his labor unfurling beneath a vast, sun-drenched sky. The imagery utilizes the symbolism of the Bhagirathi and the Himalayan peaks to elevate the laborer’s physical toil to a mythic stature, suggesting that the very foundations of art, governance, and history are built upon his sacrifice. The overall tone is one of profound, militant empathy, celebrating the grit of the working class as the singular, sun-crowned architect of human prosperity.

ये अनाज की पूलें तेरे काँधें झूलें (Ye Anaaj Ki Poolen Tere Kaandhen Jhoolen), by Makhanlal Chaturvedi runs to 29 lines, set as Two long stanzas with a repeating refrain. Its governing rasa is Veera, shaded by Shanta. The metre is geet. Rhyme falls as irregular.

यह प्रगतिशील विचारधारा से प्रभावित कविता है, जो भारत के अन्नदाता (किसान) और मजदूर वर्ग के प्रति गहरी सहानुभूति और सम्मान व्यक्त करती है।

Read it for किसान और श्रमिक के कठिन जीवन और श्रम का सम्मान and श्रम को ही देश के वास्तविक गौरव के रूप में स्थापित करना. 3 words in it carry older or regional senses, so the poem rewards a second pass.

The verse is hung beside Taming the Bull: Exuding a charged, rustic vitality, the painting captures a mood of intense physical engagement and primal harmony between man and beast. A barefoot figure wearing a vibrant orange headscarf grapples fearlessly with a…

Words worth pausing on

पूलें: अनाज के गट्ठर
भ्राता: भाई
भुजदंडों: बलशाली भुजाएँ

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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.