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वे पत्थरों को पहनाते हैं लंगोट पौधों को चुनरी और घाघरा पहनाते हैं
वनों, पर्वतों और आकाश की नग्नता से होकर आक्रांत तरह-तरह से अपनी अश्लीलता का उत्सव मनाते हैं
देवी-देवताओं को पहनाते हैं आभूषण और फिर उनके मन्दिरों का उद्धार करके उन्हें वातानुकूलित करवाते हैं
इस तरह वे ईश्वर को उसकी औकात बताते हैं ।
इति
The Poet
नरेश सक्सेना
Naresh Saxena
1939 · 2001
Naresh Saxena holds a singular and fascinating position in contemporary Hindi literature as a man who brought the exactitude of science into the heart of poetry. Born in 1939 in Gwalior and trained as an engineer, he did not publish his first poetry collection, Samudra Par Ho Rahi Hai Baarish, until he was sixty one years old. Yet, his literary presence had already been firmly established through decades of publication in prestigious journals. Saxena writes with a unique physiological and environmental awareness. He constructs his poems not out of abstract romanticism, but from the physical mechanics of the natural world and the complex realities of modern survival. His language is spare, precise, and completely devoid of unnecessary ornamentation. Alongside his poetry, he is an acclaimed playwright whose drama Aadmi Ka Aa has been staged thousands of times, and a filmmaker who won a National Film Award for his directorial work. He demonstrates that a poet does not need to abandon the rational world to understand the human soul.
Paired Painting
Untitled Idyllic Snapshot of Bustling Temple Life
This evocative masterpiece captures the soul of traditional Indian spirituality, frozen in the golden glow of a sanctum. Rao Bahadur M. V. Dhurandhar, a titan of the Bombay School of Art, possessed an extraordinary ability to weave the sacred with the everyday. In this composition, he invites us into the hushed, luminous intimacy of a temple interior, where women are gathered in an act of collective devotion. Their graceful postures, the vibrant folds of their saris, and the offerings of fruits and flowers reveal a moment of profound communion with the divine. The golden idol at the center acts as a spiritual anchor, radiating light that illuminates the faces of the devotees, suggesting that the true temple lies in the shared sincerity of the human heart.
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