❝The cold, dead ashes of centuries stir once more, dust dons a golden crown and struts about, the people? yes, you heard right, the people themselves are coming, vacate the throne, for the people are coming.❞
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar was one of the most important modern Hindi poets, essayists and academic scholars. Known as 'Rashtra Kavi' (National Poet), he received the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Jnanpith Award. His fiery, patriotic poetry inspired generations.
Born: Simaria, Bihar, India · Era: 1908–1974 · Specialty: Patriotic, Veer Rasa Poetry
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About Nazm Shayari
Nazm is a Hindi-Urdu poetic form that tells a single, continuous story or idea from start to finish — unlike the ghazal's independent couplets. Drawing on Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Allama Iqbal, Gulzar, and Sahir Ludhianvi, this collection rewards a slower, more attentive read.
❝Vacate the throne, for the people now arise, The age is turning, and a new dawn greets the skies. From this nation's soil we are born and made, In this very soil, our lives must someday fade.❞
❝Stop not Yudhishthira here — let him journey to heaven above, But return to us the Gandiva-bow, bring back Arjun and Balram's love. Kauravs and Pandavas were one, even today one lineage they share, But what stands before us calls — let us perform patriotism's prayer.❞
❝I shall light the lamp of my very life's flame, As long as darkness grips this land's domain. I will not stop, bend, or tire along the way — This is the land of heroes — my home I'll defend this day.❞
❝Dogs receive milk and clothing, hungry children writhe in pain, Clinging to their mother's bones, they endure the winter's bitter bane. A young woman's dignity is sold, yet no one's hunger fades, Speaking of religion in this swamp, without wet eyes, one never aids.❞
❝Forgiveness becomes the cobra that carries its venom within, What use forgiveness in one toothless, mild, and free of sin. Both strength and mercy together give life its grace and glow, Otherwise the meekness of the weak means nothing, high or low.❞
❝My longing rises to my lips as a prayer, O God, may my life be like a candle's flame, may the world's darkness be dispelled by my breath, may my glow bring light to every place.❞
❝Better than the whole world is our Hindustan, we are its nightingales, this is our garden, if we are in foreign lands, our heart stays in the homeland, know us to be there too, wherever our heart is.❞
❝We shall see, certainly we too shall see, that promised day, which is written on eternity's tablet, when these towering mountains of tyranny and cruelty will blow away like tufts of cotton.❞
❝From the grapes of tender feelings I have brought today this wine, beloved, with my own hands I shall pour you the cup today, let me first offer it to you, then the world shall receive its blessing, before all others, my tavern of wine welcomes you first.❞
❝This leprous daybreak, this dawn mauled by night, this is not that dawn for which we had waited, this is not that dawn with the longing for which, friends had set out, believing we'd find it somewhere.❞
❝Beyond the stars there are yet more worlds, there are yet more trials of love to face, these skies are not empty of life, here there are hundreds more caravans still to come.❞
❝Some of my belongings still lie with you, some rain-soaked days of the monsoon are kept there, and a night wrapped inside one of my letters lies there too, extinguish that night, return to me my things.❞
❝Sometimes a thought crosses my mind, that had my life passed in the soft shade of your tresses, it might have flourished, might have bloomed green, rather than this darkness that is my life's destiny.❞