Pratinidhi Kavitayen : Suryakant Tripathi Nirala

A great poet and a great human being, Nirala, surrounded throughout his life by harsh fate and bleak times, gave Hindi poetry with his own hands what takes ages of talent and energy to achieve. During the Chhayavad era, he took a step forward and made realistic poetry in free verse possible. During the freedom movement and after independence, he also wrote poems and novels targeting the conditions of Indian politics and society. With poems like Saroj Smriti and Ram Ki Shakti Pooja, he set new standards for the power of poetry. In his songs, he left countless meaningful images of tradition, experimentation, and folk consciousness for future generations. But this innovation and experimentalism were not the result of a mere love of miracles; it must surely have been the natural flow of his mind, constantly renewed by the heat of suffering, transcending years and decades in a matter of moments. In this collection of his representative poems, an effort has been made to allow the reader to witness some of the most radiant peaks of Niralas vast oeuvre.