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मैंने हँसना सीखा है मैं नहीं जानती रोना; बरसा करता पल-पल पर मेरे जीवन में सोना।
मैं अब तक जान न पाई कैसी होती है पीडा; हँस-हँस जीवन में कैसे करती है चिंता क्रिडा।
जग है असार सुनती हूँ, मुझको सुख-सार दिखाता; मेरी आँखों के आगे सुख का सागर लहराता।
उत्साह, उमंग निरंतर रहते मेरे जीवन में, उल्लास विजय का हँसता मेरे मतवाले मन में।
आशा आलोकित करती मेरे जीवन को प्रतिक्षण हैं स्वर्ण-सूत्र से वलयित मेरी असफलता के घन।
सुख-भरे सुनले बादल रहते हैं मुझको घेरे; विश्वास, प्रेम, साहस हैं जीवन के साथी मेरे।
इति
The Poet
सुभद्राकुमारी चौहान
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
1904 · 1948
There is a moment in every liberation movement when the struggle finds the poem that becomes its most essential utterance, not because the poem is merely rhetorical, but because it crystallizes an emotion so precisely that an entire people recognize themselves inside it. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan provided such a moment with Jhansi Ki Rani, her electric account of the warrior queen of Jhansi. This poem was so concentrated in its energy and so clear in its moral architecture that generations of Indian schoolchildren have carried it inside them as something closer to memory than memorization. But to reduce Chauhan to a single poem would be a severe literary injustice. She was an active participant in the independence movement who walked the path of satyagraha herself, becoming one of the first women to be imprisoned for civil disobedience. She was a poet of domestic tenderness, exploring childhood and the complex inner life of Indian women that formal literature had largely chosen to ignore. Born in 1904, she died in a road accident in 1948 too soon and too abruptly. Her voice remained fully alive and deeply necessary. She gave the warrior women of Indian mythology a voice, and in doing so, she became one herself.
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