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बापू, तुम मुर्गी खाते यदि...
Bapu, Tum Murgi Khate Yadi...
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'6 verses · ~1 min
बापू, तुम मुर्गी खाते यदि तो क्या भजते होते तुमको ऐरे-ग़ैरे नत्थू खैरे -? सर के बल खड़े हुए होते हिंदी के इतने लेखक-कवि?
बापू, तुम मुर्गी खाते यदि तो लोकमान्य से क्या तुमने लोहा भी कभी लिया होता? दक्खिन में हिंदी चलवाकर लखते हिंदुस्तानी की छवि, बापू, तुम मुर्गी खाते यदि?
बापू, तुम मुर्गी खाते यदि तो क्या अवतार हुए होते कुल के कुल कायथ बनियों के? दुनिया के सबसे बड़े पुरुष आदम, भेड़ों के होते भी! बापू, तुम मुर्गी खाते यदि?
बापू, तुम मुर्गी खाते यदि तो क्या पटेल, राजन, टंडन, गोपालाचारी भी भजते-?
भजता होता तुमको मैं औ´ मेरी प्यारी अल्लारक्खी!
बापू, तुम मुर्गी खाते यदि!
इति
The Poet
सूर्यकांत त्रिपाठी "निराला
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
1899 · 1961
Suryakant Tripathi Nirala lived in the permanent condition of the truly original. He was frequently misunderstood by the very world he transformed. Born in Bengal but claiming Hindi as the medium of his revolution, he dismantled the metrical structures of classical Sanskrit based verse. He introduced what he called mukta chhand, or free verse, into a tradition that had never encountered it and was not at first grateful. His life was a sustained encounter with catastrophe. The plague took his wife, daughter, and brother in the same brutal sweep. Poverty pressed against him without mercy, and critical misunderstanding sometimes shaded into deliberate cruelty. Yet from within this suffering, he produced verse of such concentrated and terrible beauty that it reads not as the product of a broken man, but as the testimony of a spirit that had gone through fire and returned with the fire still alive inside it. His epic Ram Ki Shakti Puja remains one of the supreme poems in the Hindi language. It is a profound meditation on doubt, divine abandonment, and the final trembling choice to go on fighting. Nirala was not a comfortable figure, nor was he praised sufficiently in his lifetime. But he was, in the most absolute sense, free. That freedom cost him everything and produced everything. He remains the patron saint of the uncompromising.
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Satyaki
In this compelling and deeply emotional work, Raja Ravi Varma brings to life a dramatic episode from the Mahabharata featuring the noble warrior Satyaki. The scene radiates tension and reverence, capturing the complex political and spiritual atmosphere of the epic. Lord Krishna is seated with serene grace on the right, clad in radiant golden and reddish robes, observing the unfolding confrontation with divine composure. Satyaki stands tall and resolute in vibrant turquoise attire, his hand raised in a gesture of profound declaration while holding his sword, embodying absolute loyalty and fearless valor. Surrounding figures display an array of intense human reactions, from anxious contemplation to awe, all masterfully rendered through the academic realism that defined Ravi Varma's legendary career. This artwork served as a vital bridge, allowing generations of devotees and art lovers to connect visually with the eternal moral dilemmas and heroic ideals of the sacred epic.
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