![]() Whether it was the veer ras (heroic style) or shringaar ras (romantic style), Dinkar had mastered it all. Young, old, woman, man, beyond the barriers of class, caste and religion, his words evoked a variety of sentiments in people’s hearts. But Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, although popularly called Rashtrakavi (National Poet), was a janakavi (people’s poet) in the truest sense. The might of his pen binds people across party politics and ideology. And leaders across party lines, from the BJP’s Giriraj Singh to CPI (M)’s Kanhaiya Kumar, have visited Dinkar’s native village of Begusarai to garland his statue. ![]() The lines Sinhasan khali karo ki janata aati hai (Vacate the throne, for the people are coming) became his warning to then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. In 1974, Lokanayak Jayprakash quoted Dinkar’s soul-stirring poem Janatantra ka Janm. ![]() It wasn’t the first time Dinkar had been held up as a mirror of India. In the foreword to Dinkar’s Sanskriti Ke Char Adhyay, former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote that he hoped this book would help us better understand India. ![]() “His creations can relate to the past, present and the future… Such is the power of the writings of Dinkar Ji.” It is about the poor and the villages,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the golden jubilee celebrations of the works of Ramdhari Singh Dinkar in 2015. “Dinkar ji’s entire literature is associated with the farmers and their livelihood.
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