Tag Archives: Poet

You may have read Shyam Narayan Pandey’s classic epic “Haldighati”. Three excerpts from that great work are available on this site. Many readers had asked me to include a Rajasthani classic poem on the same theme by the great poet Kanhaiyalal Sethia, but I could not find that poem any …

Atal Ji’s famous  poem on his birthday!  Hindu thought and philosophy evolved over the Indian sub-continent over last thousands of years. It was the most liberal thought that allowed unfettered thinking and reasoning and was a natural precursor for true humanism. Hindu society assimilated whosoever reached India for shelter from …

Heart-break of losing the love of one’s life is unbearable, but if the loser is a poet, the verbalization of depression can be very eloquent. This is first of a set of two poems from Bal Swarup Rahi. In the first poem, the poet is shattered as the love of …

There are dilemmas in life at every step. What to do? Which alternative to choose? And there are no authentic and correct answers. We must nonetheless make a choice. Rajiv Krishna Saxena राह कौन सी जाऊं मैं चौराहे पर लुटता चीर‚ प्यादे से पिट गया वजीर‚ चलूं आखिरी चाल कि …

Here is a famous poem by Bhavani Prasad Mishra. Some deep thoughts about the creation of a poem and its texture. Too much analysis of a poem defeats the whole purpose. It simply cannot be broken down into components. Rajiv Krishna Saxena बुनी हुई रस्सी बुनी हुई रस्सी को घुमाएं …

Famous poet Nida Fazli is no more. He died on 8th Feb, 2016. His poetry has such a deep penetrating insight into human phenomenon, inter-personal relations and living a life that it is as much unbelievable as it exhilarating. All lovers of poetry with deep meaning would be eternally grateful …

Heart-break of losing the love of one’s life is unbearable, but if the loser is a poet, the verbalization of depression can be very eloquent. This is second poem of a set of two poems from Bal Swarup Rahi. In the first poem [click here to read], the poet was …

Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee was one of the most popular leaders of the nation, a statesman as well as a Kavi. When my book Geeta Kavya Madhuri was published in 2002, I wrote to Atal Ji that I wanted to personally come and give him few copies. He was at …