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हरी हरी दूब पर ओस की बूंदे अभी थी, अभी नहीं हैं| ऐसी खुशियाँ जो हमेशा हमारा साथ दें कभी नहीं थी, कहीं नहीं हैं|
क्काँयर की कोख से फूटा बाल सूर्य, जब पूरब की गोद में पाँव फैलाने लगा, तो मेरी बगीची का पत्ता-पत्ता जगमगाने लगा, मैं उगते सूर्य को नमस्कार करूँ या उसके ताप से भाप बनी, ओस की बुँदों को ढूंढूँ?
सूर्य एक सत्य है जिसे झुठलाया नहीं जा सकता मगर ओस भी तो एक सच्चाई है यह बात अलग है कि ओस क्षणिक है क्यों न मैं क्षण क्षण को जिऊँ? कण-कण मेँ बिखरे सौन्दर्य को पिऊँ?
सूर्य तो फिर भी उगेगा, धूप तो फिर भी खिलेगी, लेकिन मेरी बगीची की हरी-हरी दूब पर, ओस की बूंद हर मौसम में नहीं मिलेगी|
इति
The Poet
अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
1924 · 2018
History offers, very rarely, the spectacle of a man who carries two entirely distinct and equally demanding vocations simultaneously, not one masking the other, not one subordinate to the other, but both fully alive and fully authentic. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was statesman and poet with equal integrity, and this duality was not a paradox to be explained but a wholeness to be witnessed. As Prime Minister, he navigated nuclear tests, Kargil, the Lahore Bus Yatra, and the complex geopolitics of a rising nation with a gravity and steadiness that history continues to assess. But when he set down the instruments of power and lifted the pen, he became something else entirely, a solitary voice in conversation with the deepest questions of existence. His poems do not announce themselves. They arrive quietly, like a man who has seen too much to need to raise his voice. They speak of loneliness within crowds, of the strange distance between public duty and private grief, of the question that haunts every thinking person who has wielded great responsibility: what was it all for? Born on Christmas Day in Gwalior in 1924, Vajpayee passed into the ages in 2018, leaving a dual inheritance, a republic he helped steady, and a body of verse that ensured the man beneath the statesman would never be forgotten.
Paired Painting
Terrace by the Sea
This evocative work transports the viewer to a sun-drenched terrace, where the gentle rhythm of the sea meets the quiet vibrancy of daily life. The dappled sunlight filtering through the vine-covered pergola creates an atmosphere of serenity, inviting us to linger in the cool shadows alongside the figures resting by the water. It is a humble yet profound study of light, capturing a fleeting moment of human connection against the timeless backdrop of the horizon. The composition echoes the romantic ideals of maritime scenes, rendered with a delicate, impressionistic touch that honors the warmth and tranquility of a coastal afternoon.
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