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अपने खेत में....
जनवरी का प्रथम सप्ताह खुशग़वार दुपहरी धूप में... इत्मीनान से बैठा हूँ.....
अपने खेत में हल चला रहा हूँ इन दिनों बुआई चल रही है इर्द-गिर्द की घटनाएँ ही मेरे लिए बीज जुटाती हैं हाँ, बीज में घुन लगा हो तो अंकुर कैसे निकलेंगे!
जाहिर है बाजारू बीजों की निर्मम छटाई करूँगा खाद और उर्वरक और सिंचाई के साधनों में भी पहले से जियादा ही चौकसी बरतनी है मकबूल फ़िदा हुसैन की चौंकाऊ या बाजारू टेकनीक हमारी खेती को चौपट कर देगी! जी, आप अपने रूमाल में गाँठ बाँध लो! बिलकुल!! सामने, मकान मालिक की बीवी और उसकी छोरियाँ इशारे से इजा़ज़त माँग रही हैं हमारे इस छत पर आना चाहती हैं ना, बाबा ना!
अभी हम हल चला रहे हैं आज ढाई बजे तक हमें बुआई करनी है....
इति
The Poet
नागार्जुन
Nagarjun
1911 · 1998
Vaidyanath Mishra, universally known as Nagarjun, was a literary force of nature who absolutely refused to bow before power. Born in 1911 in the Darbhanga district of Bihar, he earned the title of Janakavi or the poet of the people through decades of unyielding progressive writing. He wrote in both Hindi and Maithili, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award for his Maithili collection Patrahin Nagna Gachh. Nagarjun was a restless traveler and a committed activist who actively participated in peasant movements and went to prison several times. His poetry is stripped of all artificial elegance. It speaks directly with the raw, biting anger of the hungry, the marginalized, and the exploited. Whether he was exposing political corruption or writing tenderly about the first rains on parched village earth, his words carried the undeniable scent of the soil. He died in 1998, but he remains the ultimate benchmark for resistance poetry in India. He proved that true poetry does not reside in the palaces of kings, but in the sweat and struggle of the common folk.
Paired Painting
Landscape with Oxcart
This serene oil painting reflects the exquisite mastery of C. Raja Raja Varma, who worked alongside his celebrated brother Raja Ravi Varma to bring European academic realism into dialogue with Indian traditional subjects. The canvas captures a tranquil rural moment bathed in the golden glow of a sunlit afternoon. A solitary figure carrying a vessel walks towards a placid body of water, mirroring the quiet majesty of distant rolling hills and a solitary ancient tree. The gentle rustle of everyday life is felt through the distant oxcart and grazing cattle, portraying a timeless harmony between humanity, earth, and the divine rhythm of nature.
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