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...

This reminds me of lines I had penned when MT blog had returned after disappearing

मानस तरंगिणी ! मानस तरंगिणी !!

वितण्ड-पाश खण्डिनी !
पाषण्ड-तिमिर भण्डिनी !!
सुधी-मति-मञ्जनी मानस तरंगिणी !!!

स्वधर्म-देश दर्पिणी !
दुष्ट-दम्भ दंशिनी !!
दुन्दुभि अभिहन्तिनी मानस तरंगिणी !!!

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https://twitter.com/shakra_kulish/status/1041730015660957696

इतिगति निरूपिणी !
आगत प्रब्रूतिनी !!
नवचेतन-सूतिनी मानस तरंगिणी !!!

अनुश्रुति चिर पोषिनी !
अभिनव अपि तोषिनी !!
स्वस्तिमार्ग घोषिनी मानस तरंगिणी !!!

गुह्यतम् प्रवल्हिनी !
सान्ध्य-वाच गुञ्जिनी !!
अचिन्त्य शब्दकोषिनी मानस तरंगिणी !!!

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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

1/n 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
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Any interest in talking about true origins and development of the language we call Hindi? Maybe over a podcast or some other medium? Thanks for the responses

Next questions -

Should it be

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

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:

1/n 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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Shakespeare (~1560-1616)

His Indian contemporaries (not exhaustive):

- Surdas (~1483–1584)
- Narottam Das (1493-15?)
- Tulasidas (1532–1623)
- Raskhan (1533–1618)
- Gang (1538-1625)
- Keshav (1555–1617)
- Bihari Lal (1595–1664)
- Rahim (1556–1627)

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https://twitter.com/Chikisarkar/status/1025934635178569728

Indian Contemporaries of Shakespeare
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- Vrind (1643 - 1723)
- Dadu Dayal (1544-1603)
- Banarasi Das(1586–1643)
- Nabhadas (~1580s - 1650s)
- Jayasi (1540-16?)
- Malookdas Khatri (1574-1682)
- Kumbhan Das (1468-1583)
- Narahari Mahapatra (1505-1610)
- Adho Duraso (1538-16?)

दानव अधम अनूप, यद्यपि वे मानुष लगैं
केहि विधि एक सरूप, श्रीवलुवर अचरज करैं

छंद सोरठा
#तिरुक्कुरल #छंदभावानुवाद
#Thirukkural 1071

(Thread header: #தமிழ்हिन्दी translations)

https://twitter.com/OldTamilPoetry/status/1019278922905600000

https://twitter.com/bharatenduh/status/1017649856096194562?s=21

Which Hindu wouldn’t have heard the name of Gita Press Gorakhpur, and which Hindu household wouldn’t have at least one publication from it - Gita, Mahabharata, Upanishadas, or at least the HanumAn Chalisa booklet - from over 2,000 granthas published by it in over 20 languages? In the last 98 years of its existence it has printed and sold over 6 Billion copies of granthas, including over 1.2 bill copies of Bhagavad Gita - all at a very small price (the basic Gita is for Rs 7) with the highest standard quality of paper and printing

1930s, Nandalal Basu Kashi Vishwanath, unknown artist, 1920s. Popular calendar