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जी हाँ, लिख रहा हूँ ... बहुत कुछ! बहोत बहोत!! ढेर ढेर सा लिख रहा हूँ! मगर , आप उसे पढ़ नहीं पाओगे ... देख नहीं सकोगे उसे आप!
दरअसल बात यह है कि इन दिनों अपनी लिखावट आप भी मैं कहॉ पढ़ पाता हूँ नियोन-राड पर उभरती पंक्तियों की तरह वो अगले ही क्षण गुम हो जाती हैं चेतना के 'की-बोर्ड' पर वो बस दो-चार सेकेंड तक ही टिकती है .... कभी-कभार ही अपनी इस लिखावट को कागज़ पर नोट कर पता हूँ स्पन्दनशील संवेदन की क्षण-भंगुर लड़ियाँ सहेजकर उन्हें और तक पहुँचाना! बाप रे , कितना मुश्किल है! आप तो 'फोर-फिगर' मासिक - वेतन वाले उच्च-अधिकारी ठहरे, मन-ही-मन तो हसोंगे ही, की भला यह भी कोई काम हुआ , की अनाप- शनाप ख़यालों की महीन लफ्फाजी ही करता चले कोई - यह भी कोई काम हुआ भला!
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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Portrait of Sadriddin Ainy
This portrait captures a quiet, profound moment in the life of the Tajik national hero and polymath Sadriddin Ainy. Ainy was a man who endured great personal sorrow, losing his parents to a cholera epidemic in his youth, yet he rose to become a foundational figure in Central Asian literature and education. The artist portrays him in an intimate setting, bathed in the soft, focused light of a desk lamp, suggesting the solitary devotion of a scholar lost in contemplation. The atmosphere is heavy with the weight of history, reflecting both his intellectual rigour and the melancholic endurance of a man who devoted his soul to the preservation of culture amidst times of profound change.
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