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आज ठंडक अधिक है। बाहर ओले पड़ चुके हैं, एक हफ़्ता पहले पाला पड़ा था-- अरहर कुल की कुल मर चुकी थी, हवा हाड़ तक बेध जाती है, गेहूँ के पेड़ ऎंठे खड़े हैं, खेतीहरों में जान नहीं, मन मारे दरवाज़े कौड़े ताप रहे हैं एक दूसरे से गिरे गले बातें करते हुए, कुहरा छाया हुआ। उँपर से हवाबाज़ उड़ गया। ज़मीनदार का सिपाही लट्ठ कंधे पर डाले आया और लोगों की ओर देख कर कहा, 'डेरे पर थानेदार आए हैं; डिप्टी साहब नें चंदा लगाया है, एक हफ़्ते के अंदर देना है। चलो, बात दे आओ। कौड़े से कुछ हट कर लोगों के साथ कुत्ता खेतिहर का बैठा था, चलते सिपाही को देख कर खडा हुआ, और भौंकने लगा, करुणा से बंधु खेतिहर को देख-देख कर।
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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