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आओ मन की गांठें खोलें – अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी

Let us open our heart

Atal Ji’s poems have deep roots in the India tradition. Here is one that describes a typical rural Indian house hold of the yester years. It is a picture that we are sadly losing rapidly under the pressure of “modernization” – Rajiv Krishna Saxena आओ मन की गांठें खोलें यमुना …

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रोते रोते बहल गई कैसे – बेकल उत्साही

रोते रोते बहल गई कैसे - बेकल उत्साही

Bekal Utsaahi (real name Mohammad Shafi Khan) is a well know poet with grass-roots in Hindi heartland. His geets reflects the concerns of farmers and rural folks. He wrote some gazals also though his forte remained geets as the last two lines of the gazal below convey. The poet was …

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