Tag Archives: Old Classic poems for Recitation

पानी और धुप: Here is a poem written by the famous poetess Subhadra Kumari Chauhan at the time of freedom struggle of India. It depicts the desire of a child to learn the use of sword to ward off policemen who come to arrest the freedom fighter ‘Kaka’. पानी और धुप: सुभद्रा कुमारी चौहान अभी अभी थी धूप, बरसने, लगा …

चारु चंद्र की चंचल किरणें: Here is an excerpt from the famous poem Panchvati by Maithili Sharan Gupt. The description is of the cottage in Panchvati forest that was the abode of Ram, Laxman and Sita during the terminal year of their 14 years banvas. As Ram and Sita sleep inside, Laxman is on guard outside. This poem further goes on …

सारे जहाँ से अच्छा हिन्दोस्तां हमारा: 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 (Reference). In 1904, Iqbal, then a young lecturer at the Government College, …

75th Anniversary of Indian Independence or Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav is an ongoing event, in which the 75th Anniversary of the Independence of India is being celebrated in India and abroad. The Government of India decided to celebrate the 75 years of Independence of India, with great excitement and tribute to freedom fighters. So, they decided to do various programs …

ऋतुओं की ऋतू बसंत: सुमित्रानंदन पंत – वसंत पञ्चमी या श्रीपंचमी एक हिन्दू त्यौहार है। इस दिन विद्या की देवी सरस्वती की पूजा की जाती है। यह पूजा पूर्वी भारत, पश्चिमोत्तर बांग्लादेश, नेपाल और कई राष्ट्रों में बड़े उल्लास से मनायी जाती है। इस दिन पीले वस्त्र धारण करते हैं। शास्त्रों में बसंत पंचमी को ऋषि पंचमी से उल्लेखित किया …

जलियाँवाला बाग में बसंत: सुभद्रा कुमारी चौहान – Jallianwala Bagh (जलियाँवाला बाग) is a public garden in Amritsar, and houses a memorial of national importance, established in 1951 by the Government of India, to commemorate the massacre of peaceful celebrators including unarmed women and children by British occupying forces, on the occasion of the Punjabi New Year (Baisakhi) on 13 …

The Gift of India is a poem written in 1915 by the Indian poet, freedom fighter and politician Sarojini Naidu. The poem is a tribute to the contribution of Indian soldiers in World War I. Over 10 lakh Indian soldiers from the British Indian Empire served in the Allied forces in the First World War. A vast number of them …

15 अगस्त 1947 कविता: सुमित्रानंदन पंत (मई 20, 1900 – दिसंबर 28, 1977) हिंदी में छायावाद युग के चार प्रमुख स्तंभों में से एक हैं। उनका जन्म अल्मोड़ा ज़िले के कौसानी नामक ग्राम में मई 20, 1900 को हुआ। जन्म के छह घंटे बाद ही माँ को क्रूर मृत्यु ने छीन लिया। शिशु को उसकी दादी ने पाला पोसा। शिशु …

परशुराम की प्रतीक्षा: रामधारी सिंह दिनकर – A just society does not occur spontaneously. It has to be nurtured and protected with valor. Here is a poem so characteristic of Ramdhari Singh Dinkar. Compare with his other works like “Shakti Aur Kshma“, “Vijayi Ki Sadrish Jiyo Re” and Rashmirathi in this collection. Before the contemporary poem evolved as an expression …

Easter Sunday: Ingeborg Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of Olga (née Haas) and Matthias Bachmann, a schoolteacher. Her father was an early member of the Austrian National Socialist Party. She had a sister, Isolde, and a brother, Heinz. She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, …