What has passed is a chapter closed; what is gone is gone.Harivansh Rai Bachchan
“A body of clay, a mind brimming with joy, a life of one fleeting moment — that is my introduction.”
“A body of clay, a mind brimming with joy, a life of one fleeting moment — that is my introduction.”
— HARIVANSH RAI BACHCHAN
Hindi poet · 1907 – 2003
Harivansh Rai Bachchan was one of the most popular Hindi poets of the twentieth century, famed for Madhushala (1935) and the fiery poem Agneepath. He taught at Allahabad University and earned a doctorate from Cambridge on the poet W. B. Yeats. He was the father of actor Amitabh Bachchan.
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