hindi poetry

Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi (4 April 1889 – 30 January 1968)

किसान-कवि, लेखक और निर्भीक पत्रकार पंडित माखनलाल चतुर्वेदी राजद्रोह में जेल गए, CM पद ठुकराया और सम्मान लौटाया शायद ही कोई ऐसा व्यक्ति हो, जिसने स्कूली शिक्षा के दौरान या फिर साहित्य-अध्ययन के दौरान ‘पुष्प की अभिलाषा’ कविता न पढ़ी हो. चाह नहीं मैं सुरबाला के, गहनों में गूंथा जाऊं, चाह नहीं प्रेमी-माला में बिंध, प्यारी को ललचाऊं चाह नहीं सम्राटों के शव पर, हे हरि डाला जाऊं चाह नहीं देवों के सिर पर, चढूं भाग्य पर इठलाऊं मुझे तोड़…

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KHALIL DHANTEJVI 12 Dec 1938 – 4 April 2021

KHALIL DHANTEJVI This Ghazal was sung by the Famous Ghazal Singer Jagjit Singh which led to International recognition for the writer Ab mai.n raashan kii kataaro.n me.n nazar aataa huu.N , apne kheto.n se bichha.Dane kii sazaa paataa huu.N, itnii meha.Ngaa_ii ke baazaar se kuchh laataa huu.N, apne bachcho.n me.n use baa.NT ke sharmaataa huu.N , apnii nii.ndo.n kii lahuu po.Nchne kii koshish me.n, jaagte jaagte thak jaataa huu.N so jaataa huu.N , ko-ii chaadar samajh ke khii.Nch na le…

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Amrita Pritam

Amrita Pritam is one of the best known Punjabi authors and poets was a writer, a mystic, a poet, a rebel and a human being par excellence. She wrote about love, hope, separation, feminism, partition and struggles of women . She could be a synonym for ‘Freedom’. She lived life on her own terms but without being a confrontationist. She was honoured with some of the highest awards in the country including the Sahitya Akademi, Bharatiya Jnanpith, and Padma Vibhushan.…

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