Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi

'Desire of Flower' was born hundred years ago in Chhattisgarh jail

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His birth poet was imprisoned for 8 months in this jail of Chhattisgarh!

(Swaraj Karun)

Do you know that the famous poet Late Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi's popular poem 'Pushpa ki Abhilasha' was born in a central jail in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh?

I would like to inform those who do not know or have forgotten that during the Independence movement, there was a substantial general meeting at Shanichari Maidan of Bilaspur where Chaturvedi ji announced the light of the English empire in India would soon be cut off and the sunrise of independence soon Had. This was arrested by the then British regime accusing them of sedition. Chaturvedi ji was imprisoned in Bilaspur's Central Jail for about 8 months from 5 July 1921 to 1 March 1922. There he composed his famous poem titled 'Floral Ki Desire', which through a floral expresses the desire for the freedom of the countrymen and the curiosity to offer his head for the motherland's space. This means this poem came out of the heart of poet Makhanlal Chaturvedi during his prison period of almost a hundred years ago.

Today on 4th April, on the birth anniversary of the late Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi, I also remembered his poem. Chaturvedi ji was born on 4 April 1889 in the village Babai of the Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh. He died on 30 January 1968. Chaturvedi ji was also a poet as well as writer and journalist. He started his public life as a teacher in 1906, but Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi jumped into the freedom movement. During this time, he also edited magazines named 'Prabha', 'Pratap', and 'Karmaveer'. (Swaraj Karun) Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi wrote hundreds of poems. The original tone of most of his creations full of patriotism is progressive. After independence Chaturvedi ji was awarded by the Government of India with Sahitya Academy Award in 1955 and Padmabhushan Alankan in the year 1963. The Indian government also issued postal stamps in their honor.

Sahitya Academy Award was awarded to him for his poetry work 'Himatarangini'. Madhya Pradesh government had also organized a citizen felicitation ceremony in Khandwa in their honor on 16-17 January 1965. Sagar University D them. Awarded with the honorary title of Lit. Today on 4th April 2020, paying tribute to Chaturvedi ji on his birth anniversary, come to the indomitable lines of this very popular poem about 100 years ago, let us hum the mind once again --

I don't want to be knitted in the jewels of Surbala.

I don't want to, tie the lover in the garland of the lover and lure the beloved.

I don't want to be put on the dead bodies of the emperors.

I don't want, will be on the head of the gods, and I will be on my fate.

Break me and throw me on the path of Vanmalius.

Many heroes go to whichever way to offer their head on the motherland.

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