Old Classic Poems

Here is an old classic by Om Prakash Aditya. The situation is that a young woman is on the roof of a house trying to jump and kill herself. Om Prakash Aditya Ji describes the scene in style of many well known poets. Look at his genius and how well …

Raskhan the great Krishna-Bhakt lived in late sixteenth century some where around Delhi and wrote in Brij Bhasha. His following poem is a classic and shows the depth of his absolute devotion for Lord Krishna – Rajiv Krishna Saxena मनुष हौं‚ तो वही ‘रसखानि’   मनुष हौं‚ तो वही ‘रसखानि’ …

निर्वाण षटकम् मनोबुद्धय्हंकार चित्तानि नाहं श्रोत्रजिव्हे न च घ्राणनेत्रे न च व्योमभूमिर्न तेजो न वायुः चिदानन्दरूपः शिवोऽहम् शिवोऽहम। 1 मैं  न तो मन हूं‚ न बुद्धि‚ न अहांकार‚ न ही चित्त हूं मैं न तो कान हूं‚ न जीभ‚ न नासिका‚ न ही नेत्र हूं मैं न तो आकाश हूं‚ …

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 …

Who are the saboteurs of this Nation? Who are responsible for impeding our growth? In this excerpt from the famous book “Parushuram ki Prateeksha”, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar identifies some culprits. Rajiv Krishna Saxena अपराधी कौन घातक है, जो देवता–सदृश दिखता है लेकिन कमरे में ग़लत हुक्म लिखता है जिस पापी …

This great poem was written by Allama Muhammad Iqbal, a great poet-philosopher and active political leader. Iqbal was born at Sialkot, Punjab, in 1877. He descended from a family of Kashmiri brahmins but his grandfather Sahaj Ram Sapru, had to embrace Islam. In 1904, Iqbal, then a young lecturer at …

Here is an old classic poem by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, who also wrote the evergreen poem – Jhansi Ki Rani. Her writing career unfortunately came to an early end as she died at the age of 42, in a road accident. That happened before the country attained freedom. That explains …

Albert Einstein said about him, “Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood”. What a phenomenon our Father of the nation was! He took on an empire about which it was said that the “sun never sets on it”, …

As per the original agreement Pandavas were to get back their kingdom when they returned from 14 years exile in the forests. But Duryodhan refused to oblige and part with the land. Lord Krishna came to Duryodhan to persuade him to see the reason and give Pandavas at least five …

It is said that the Mughals were humbled in victory that day at Haldighati and Rana obtained a glorious defeat. Mansingh narrowly escaped the spear of Rana. Mughals by far out numbers Rana’s men. Tired and wounded Rana was headed for a certain death. At that juncture, a valiant warrior …