लड़की अकेली है इस वक़्त

The poem exudes a profound, meditative stillness that embodies the shanta rasa, casting an emotional atmosphere of absolute quietude and unshakeable inner detachment. Visually, a painting of this scene would depict a solitary woman seated motionless in a spare, sunlit room, perhaps gazing past a stack of unopened books as the shifting shadows of morning, noon, and evening wash over her empty space without interruption. The imagery captures the quiet rhythm of a solitary existence—caught between a yawn, a stretching limb, and a silent laugh—symbolizing the inescapable enclosure of human consciousness where every emotion, from joy to suppressed anger, remains entirely unshared. The artistic tone is both solemn and serene, treating the woman's profound isolation not as a tragic abandonment, but as an elemental, inviolable state of pure, untethered solitude.

लड़की अकेली है इस वक़्त (Ladki Akeli Hai Is Waqt), by Shalabh Shriram Singh runs to 17 lines across 6 stanzas, set as Five stanzas of three lines each, with a final single-line concluding stanza.. Its governing rasa is Shanta, shaded by Karuna. The metre is free verse. Rhyme falls as none.

Written in 1992 in Vidisha, this poem portrays the deep, multi-layered solitude of a woman's inner life.

Read it for स्त्री का पूर्ण एकांत, सुख-दुःख और दैनिक जीवन में अकेलापन and अस्तित्वगत तन्हाई. 2 words in it carry older or regional senses, so the poem rewards a second pass.

The verse is hung beside Seated Lady: Bathed in a mood of quietude and soulful contemplation, the portrait depicts an Indian woman lost in a private world of thought as she pauses in a moment of repose. Her averted gaze and serene posture suggest an untold…