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Angan Ke Par Dwar
''Angan Ke Par Dwar'' (; ) is a 1961 poetry collection by Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, generally known by his pen-name, Agyeya. The book received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964. Content The poems of the book were written during the period 1959 to 1961. The poems of the book is divided into three parts; ''Antah Salila'', ''Chakrant Shila'' and ''Asadhya Vina'' (''The Unmastered Lute''). ''Antah Salila'' contains 18 poems. ''Chakrant Shila'' has 27 poems, majorly written with neo-mystical theme. The last part, ''Asadhya Vina'', contains a long poem by the same title. Agyeya heavily used ''Tadbhava'' words (words adopted from Sanskrit), avoiding ''Tatsama'' words (words borrowed from Sanskrit with modified phonology). ''Angan Ke Par Dwar'' played decisive role in bringing to the light the creative possibilities of the ''Tadbhava'' vocabulary. Reception ''Angan Ke Par Dwar'' received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964. It was translated into Gujarati by Bholabhai Patel as ''Angana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sachchidananda Vatsyayan
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language. He pioneered modern trends in Hindi poetry, as well as in fiction, criticism and journalism. He is regarded as the pioneer of the ''Prayogavaad'' (experimentalism) movement in modern Hindi literature. Son of a renowned archaeologist Hiranand Sastri, Agyeya was born in Kasia, a small town near Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh. He took active part in the Indian freedom struggle and spent several years in prison for his revolutionary activities against British colonial rule. He edited the '' Saptak'' series which gave rise a new trends in Hindi poetry, known as ''Nayi Kavita''. He edited several literary journals, and launched his own Hindi language weekly '' Dinaman'', which set new standard and trends in H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nand Kishore Acharya
Nand Kishore Acharya (born 31 August 1945) is an Indian playwright, poet, and critic who was born in Bikaner, Rajasthan. He is a professor emeritus at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, where he taught Political Economy and Human Rights. Awards *Sahitya Academy Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ... 2019. *Rajasthan Sahitya Akademi's highest honour Mira Award. Bibliography Poetry * ''Jal Hai Jhan'' (1980) * ''Wah Ek Samudra Tha'' (1982) * ''Shabda Bhule Hue'' (1987) * ''Aati Hai Jaise Mrityu'' (1990) * ''Kavita Mein Nahin Hai Jo'' (1995) * ''Anya Hote Hue'' (2008) Plays * ''Dehaantar'' (including Kimidam Yaksham 1987) * ''Paagalghar'' (including Joote 1988) * ''Gulam Badshah'' (including Hastinapur 1992) * ''Kisi aur ka sapna' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindi Poetry Collections
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been described as a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language, which itself is based primarily on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and neighbouring areas of North India. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the two official languages of the Government of India, along with English. It is an official language in nine states and three union territories and an additional official language in three other states. Hindi is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Hindi is the ''lingua franca'' of the Hindi Belt. It is also spoken, to a lesser extent, in other parts of India (usually in a simplified or pidginised variety such as Bazaar Hindustani or Haflong Hindi). Outside India, several othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Poetry Books
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