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बातें– हँसी में धुली हुईं सौजन्य चंदन में बसी हुई बातें– चितवन में घुली हुईं व्यंग्य-बंधन में कसी हुईं बातें– उसाँस में झुलसीं रोष की आँच में तली हुईं बातें– चुहल में हुलसीं नेह–साँचे में ढली हुईं बातें– विष की फुहार–सी बातें– अमृत की धार–सी बातें– मौत की काली डोर–सी बातें– जीवन की दूधिया हिलोर–सी बातें– अचूक वरदान–सी बातें– घृणित नाबदान–सी बातें– फलप्रसू, सुशोभन, फल–सी बातें– अमंगल विष–गर्भ शूल–सी बातें– क्य करूँ मैं इनका? मान लूँ कैसे इन्हें तिनका? बातें– यही अपनी पूंजी¸ यही अपने औज़ार यही अपने साधन¸ यही अपने हथियार बातें– साथ नहीं छोड़ेंगी मेरा बना लूँ वाहन इन्हें घुटन का, घिन का? क्या करूँ मैं इनका? बातें– साथ नहीं छोड़ेंगी मेरा स्तुति करूँ रात की, जिक्र न करूँ दिन का? क्या करूँ मैं इनका?
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.
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Vyasa Dictating the Mahabharata to Ganesha
This deeply revered scene captures a pivotal moment in sacred Hindu literature, where the venerable sage Vyasa dictates his monumental epic, the Mahabharata, to Lord Ganesha, the remover of obstacles. According to tradition, Vyasa sought a scribe of unmatched intellect to capture the fast flowing stream of his cosmic poetry, invoking Ganesha with the condition that the deity's pen must never stop moving. In response, Ganesha set the profound counter condition that Vyasa must not pause without understanding every single verse, creating a magnificent intellectual dialogue between human wisdom and divine grace. The artwork immortalizes this spiritual collaboration under the shade of a sacred tree, with Ganesha expertly wielding his broken tusk as a pen to record the eternal narrative.
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