कहिये वे तो भलि करैं, जो नहिं मांगैं खायँ
उनसे अच्छी वे करैं, अनुचित जो न कमायँ
अतुलित पर वे वीर हैं, धन्यधन्य कहिलायँ
ग्रास न छीनैं दीन का, भूखे ही मरि जायँ
आचार्य हजारी प्रसाद लिख गए हैं, “व्यंग्य साहित्य की एक ऐसी शैली है जहाँ बोलने वाला अधरोष्ठों में मुस्करा रहा हो और सुनने वाला तिलमिला उठे”
कुत्सित “स्टैण्डप-कामेडी” व्यंग्य तो दूर, न विनोद है न हास्य है, बस विवर्ण गाली-गलोज की अनायास वृत्ति है, कुण्ठिता और कुरूपा।
एक समय...
...ऐसे भी लेखक-कवि-वक्तागण हुए हैं जिन्होंने अपना पूरा जीवन व्यंग्यविधा को समर्पित कर दिया।
भारतेंदु हरिश्चन्द्र की बहुसंख्य गद्य एवं पद्य रचनाओं में satire पूरे उस्लास पर है। उनकी “क्यों सखि सजना? नहिं, अंग्रेज़” पर समाप्त होने वाली असंख्य पहेलियों में परिपक्व व्यंग्य पाएँगे...
... उन्हीं के निकट-समयुगीन बालमुकुंद गुप्त भी सम्पूर्ण व्यंग्यकार हुए - उनके कृतित्व में चुटीले व्यंग्य के सँग हास्य की सुमधुर बानगी दिखेगी।
प्रेमचंद के अनेकानेक कथानकों में बिना एक कटु शब्द बोले ही निपट घायल कर देने की क्षमता है - “पण्डित मोटेराम जी शास्त्री” पढ़ कर देखिये...
Sad to see the Hindi bashing handles get so blinded by hate. I just read one go so far as to claim that Hindi writers (incl Jaishankar Prasad) are not as close to Sanskrit lexicon as say Kannada!!
We post representative writings of H writers - readers can see for themselves
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Pages from the four most celebrated works of Jaishankar Prasad: 1) Novel कंकाल 2) Drama ध्रुवस्वामिनी 3) Short Story पुरस्कार 4) Poem कामायनी
If you didn’t get every single word of these writings, you probably didn’t learn Sanskrit, for each word here is from Sanskrit 2/n
Next I post Sita Ram Goel ji’s writing in Hindi.
You can not comprehend it if you did not know Sanskrit.
1. Hindi was a poor man’s Sanskrit. 2. When knowledge of Sanskrit diminished among masses, Hindi stepped up to the job 3. Hindi’s reach is not given to it by constitutional privilege ever 4. Hindi is one Indic bhasha, like Sanskrit, which no single region can claim as its native
5. In 1800s Hindi lang and Devanagari script was deliberately chosen -by leaders not from areas that are wrongly called Hindi- heartland - but mostly from Gujarat, Punjab, or Bengal 6. Most of them, like Dayanand, were staunch Sanskritists, who while dreamers were also pragmatist
7. Since the last about one thousand years - there is one language that can be generally understood by masses from cities of Afghanistan to North East India and Bangladesh, down south till parts of Karnataka 8. That bhasha of convenience in its modern form is called Hindi
Some reactions in the aftermath of Pokhran II, one of the bravest decisions by #AtalBihariVaajpayee.
Sonia Gandhi did not react for over a week, perhaps looking for instructions. Then this vitriol:
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K Natwar Singh was the helmsman of Sonia Gandhi on the issue, who actually questioned even the engineering of the nuclear tests undermining its validity.
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According to Sonia, #AtalBehariVajpayee was “divisive force” pushing india to “darkness” and threatening the peaceful neighbors with nuclear arms