Congratulations to Bob Dylan for winning the Nobel Prize for literature. He belongs to the
dazzling galaxy of the Greatest living poets and legends such as Swaamee
Aprtemaanandaa Jee who have created new effective poetic expressions that have
moved generations of people.
He is one of the Select group of Great poets/writers of
all times around the world such as Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Ramdhari Singh
Dinkar and Swaamee Aprtemaanandaa Jee whose New Poetic Expressions have changed
effectively the socio-political discourse of their own times.
The words ‘VANDE MATRM’ from
the Bengali novel ‘Anandmath’ written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee inspired generations
of Indian freedom fighters to uproot the colonial British imperialists from
Hindustan and evokes feelings of matriotism even today.
The poetic expressions from
the poems of Bob Dylan guided the civil rights movement of the 1960s in USA.
The
famous lines from the Hindi poem of Ramdhari Singh Dinkar provided motivating
force to millions of Indians during the 1975 emergency period to throw off the
dictatorship of Mrs Indira Gandhi. These lines had asked the rulers to abdicate
the thrown in view of the marching common citizens. In recent times, the
inspiring words SARVJAN HITAAY SARVJAN SUKHAAY [Meaning – Benefit to each,
Happiness/Prosperity/Bliss/Comfort to each] from a Hindi poem by Swaamee
Aprtemaanandaa Jee as opposed to the old concept of BAHUJAN HITAAY
BAHUJAN SUKHAAY [Benefit to majority of people, Happiness/Prosperity/Bliss/Comfort
to Majority of people] became the guiding light of and changed the
socio-political outlook of the Bahujan Samajwadi Party [Meaning – Socialist Party
for Majority of people] in Uttar Pradesh. It moved the Bahujan Samajwadi Party
from the dangerous polarising mode of caring for only those who formed the
numerical Majority [Bahujan] to the all-embracing humane concept of caring for Each/All
[Sravjana] citizen. The immortal words ‘SARVJAN HITAAY SARVJAN SUKHAAY’ changed
the nature of the Indian politics for ever.
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