This book is first in a series of, the eminent Hindi poet, Harivansh Rai Bachchan's autobiographical works.
The four volumes together describe his journey as a writer, from the days of his youth to his days of being a poet. The book reveals how his poetry became an expression of his emotions, and how his work was influenced by the many facets of society.
This is an extensive
This book is first in a series of, the eminent Hindi poet, Harivansh Rai Bachchan's autobiographical works.
The four volumes together describe his journey as a writer, from the days of his youth to his days of being a poet. The book reveals how his poetry became an expression of his emotions, and how his work was influenced by the many facets of society.
This is an extensive story of the personal and professional journey of a renowned poet, describing the many events in his life that left an impact on him, and the many influences that impacted his poetry.
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Bhasha dwara abhivyakti to bahut pustakon mein milti hai parantu aisi kitaabein milna mushkil hoti hain jo swayam bhaashaa ka khazana hon...
Is kitaab ke sameeksha samay nikal kar likhenge par yeh nishchit hai ki yedi hindi padhna aapko pasand hai to yeh kitaab haath mein lekar aap atyant khushi ka anubhav karenge...
Anubhooti ka bhandaar hai yeh aur lekhak ka ek tarah se darpan bhi !!!
Sabse jyada prabhavshaali lekhak ki krantikari soch hai... samaaj ke prati... aur shayad sise log hi samaaj ko
Bhasha dwara abhivyakti to bahut pustakon mein milti hai parantu aisi kitaabein milna mushkil hoti hain jo swayam bhaashaa ka khazana hon...
Is kitaab ke sameeksha samay nikal kar likhenge par yeh nishchit hai ki yedi hindi padhna aapko pasand hai to yeh kitaab haath mein lekar aap atyant khushi ka anubhav karenge...
Anubhooti ka bhandaar hai yeh aur lekhak ka ek tarah se darpan bhi !!!
Sabse jyada prabhavshaali lekhak ki krantikari soch hai... samaaj ke prati... aur shayad sise log hi samaaj ko sahi disha ki ore le jaate.
Lekhak ne jis tarah apni patni Shyama ji ka chitran kiya hai usse lagta hai ki un dono ka sambandh adbhut hai. Shyama ji sahi mayne mein ek Jeevansangini saabit huin aur nishchit taur par unhe paakar lekhak ne swayam ko dhanya mehsoos kiya hoga.
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Born in a Srivastava Kayastha family, in the village of Babupatti (Raniganj) in the district of Pratapgarh, U.P. near Allahabad in the United Provinces (modern Uttar Pradesh). He was the eldest son of Pratap Narayan Shrivastav and Saraswati Devi. He was called bachchan (meaning 'child-like') at home. He received his formal schooling in a municipal school and followed the family tradition of attend
Born in a Srivastava Kayastha family, in the village of Babupatti (Raniganj) in the district of Pratapgarh, U.P. near Allahabad in the United Provinces (modern Uttar Pradesh). He was the eldest son of Pratap Narayan Shrivastav and Saraswati Devi. He was called bachchan (meaning 'child-like') at home. He received his formal schooling in a municipal school and followed the family tradition of attending Kayastha Paathshaalas (कायस्थ पाठशाला) to learn Urdu as the first step to a career in law. He later studied at the Allahabad University and Banaras Hindu University. In this period, he came under the influence of the independence movement, then under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.
Realizing that this was not the path he wanted to follow, he went back to the university. However from 1941 to 1952 he taught in the English Department at the Allahabad University and after that he spent the next two years at Cambridge University doing his doctoral thesis on W.B. Yeats. It was then, that he used ‘Bachchan’ as his last name instead of Srivastava. Harivanshrai’s thesis got him his PhD at Cambridge. He is the second Indian to get his doctorate in English literature from Cambridge. After returning to India he again took to teaching and also served at All India Radio, Allahabad.
In 1926, at the age of 19, Bachchan married his first wife, Shyama, who was then 14 years old. However she died ten years later in 1936 after a long spell of TB at just 24 years of age. Bachchan again married, Teji Bachchan, in 1941. They had two sons, Amitabh and Ajitabh.
In 1955, Harivanshrai shifted to Delhi to join the External Affairs Ministry as an officer on Special duty and during the period of 10 years that he served he was also associated with the evolution of Hindi as the official language. He also enriched Hindi through his translations of major writings. As a poet is famous for his poem Madhushala (a bar selling alcoholic drinks). Besides Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, he will also be remembered for his Hindi translations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Othello and also the Bhagvad Gita. However in Nov 1984 he wrote his last poem ‘Ek November1984’ on Indira Gandhi’s assassination.
Harivanshrai was nominated to the Indian Rajya Sabha in 1966 and received the Sahitya Akademi award three years later. In 1976 he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan for his immense contribution to Hindi literature. He was also honoured with the Saraswati Samman, the Sovietland Nehru Award and the Lotus Award of the Afro-Asian writers’ conference, for his unique contribution to the world of letters. But if ever asked to introduce himself, he had a simple introduction: Mitti ka tan, masti ka man, kshan-bhar jivan — mera parichay. (A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment’s life - that is me.).
Bachchan died on January 18, 2003, at the age of 95, as a result of various respiratory ailments. His wife Teji Bachchan died four years later in 2007, at the age of 93.
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