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समर भूमि पर मानव शोणित से रंजित निर्भीक चरण धर, अभिनंदित हो दिग घोषित तोपों के गर्जन से प्रलयंकर, शुभागमन नव वर्ष कर रहा, हालाडोला पर चढ़ दुर्धर, वृहद विमानों के पंखो से बरसा कर विष वह्नि निरंतर!
इधर अड़ा साम्राज्यवाद, शत शत विनाश के ले आयोजन, उधर प्रतिक्रिया रुद्ध शक्तियाँ क्रुद्ध दे रहीं युद्ध निमंत्रण! सत्य न्याय के बाने पहने, सत्व लुब्ध लड़ रहे राष्ट्रगण, सिन्धु तरंगों पर क्रय विक्रय स्पर्धा उठ गिर करती नर्तन! धू-धू करती वाष्प शक्ति, विद्युत ध्वनि करती दीर्ण दिगंतर, ध्वंस भ्रंश करते विस्फोटक धनिक सभ्यता के गढ़ जर्जर! तुमुल वर्ग संघर्ष में निहित जनगण का भविष्य लोकोत्तर, इंद्रचाप पुल सा नव वत्सर शोभित प्रलय प्रभ मेघों पर!
आओ हे दुर्धर्ष वर्ष! आओ विनाश के साथ नव सृजन, विंश शताब्दी का महान विज्ञान ज्ञान ले, उत्तर यौवन!
रचनाकाल: जनवरी’ ४०
इति
The Poet
सुमित्रानंदन पंत
Sumitranandan Pant
1900 · 1977
Sumitranandan Pant was the absolute master of lyrical aestheticism in modern Hindi literature. Born in 1900 in the lush Kumaon hills of Uttarakhand, he drew his earliest and most profound inspiration from the pristine beauty of the Himalayas. He became one of the four foundational pillars of Chhayavaad, the Hindi neo romantic movement. However, his literary journey did not stagnate in romantic nature worship. Over a career spanning more than five decades, his poetry evolved through distinct phases, absorbing progressive ideologies and eventually culminating in the deep philosophical spiritualism of Sri Aurobindo. Works like Pallav showcased his unmatched ability to weave delicate, musical imagery, while his later masterpiece Chidambara earned him the Jnanpith Award in 1968, the very first time this prestigious honor was given to a Hindi writer. Pant was also recognized with the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Bhushan. He passed away in 1977, leaving behind a poetic vocabulary that taught the Hindi language how to capture the exact softness of falling dew and the quiet grandeur of the mountains.
Paired Painting
The Rush of the Heroes
This magnificent canvas captures the thunderous chaos and visceral intensity of the Kurukshetra war, a catastrophic fratricidal conflict that forms the dramatic crux of the Mahabharata. Italian artist Giampaolo Tomassetti spent years immersing himself in the sacred literature of India, translating the monumental spiritual depth and poetic scale of the Sanskrit epic into a breathtaking neoclassical visual vocabulary. Amidst a turbulent cloud of dust and flying arrows, heroic chariots charge forward with unrelenting fury, and divine weapons streak across the sky like bolts of golden light. Every figure in the composition pulses with the terrible majesty of duty, fate, and mortal struggle, reminding the viewer of the eternal dharmic dilemmas that define the human condition.
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