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नभ में चौकडियाँ भरें भले शिशु घन-कुरंग खिलवाड़ देर तक करें भले शिशु घन-कुरंग लो, आपस में गुथ गए खूब शिशु घन-कुरंग लो, घटा जल में गए डूब शिशु घन-कुरंग लो, बूंदें पडने लगीं, वाह शिशु घन-कुरंग लो, कब की सुधियाँ जगीं, आह शिशु घन-कुरंग पुरवा सिहकी, फिर दीख गए शिशु घन-कुरंग शशि से शरमाना सीख गए शिशु घन-कुरंग
१९६४ में लिखित
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
Sita and the Golden Deer
This evocative scene captures a poignant moment from the Ramayana, the ancient Sanskrit epic that remains a heartbeat of Indian spiritual life. Here, we witness the noble Sita in the forest, her gaze fixed upon the mysterious golden deer, a creature of celestial beauty and deceptive charm. Stephen Reid, working in the early twentieth century, approaches the myth with a refined, romantic sensibility that highlights the vulnerability of the divine queen at the brink of her great trial. The soft, ethereal quality of the landscape mirrors the sacred atmosphere of the Dandaka forest, reminding us of the timeless nature of duty, longing, and the subtle threads of fate that weave through human existence.
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