Ramdhari Singh Dinkar wrote poems, that were not only the means of entertainment but the way to awaken the people.
Dedicated to him let's remember a poem that truly expresses his emotions in his writings -
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it, after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a
high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. When they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand: the bat
holding on upside down or in quest of something to
eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf
under
a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that
feels a
flea, the base-
ball fan, the statistician--
nor is it valid
to discriminate against 'business documents and
school-books; all these phenomena are important. One must
make a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
the result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
'literalists of
the imagination'--above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them, shall
we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.
Let's come to know the stature of Rashtrakavi Dinkar in literature, with the two classic works ‘Four Chapters of Culture and ‘Parshuram’s wait’.
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet.
Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
~ Erica Jong
With his determination to oppose the power, he was awarded many grand awards:
->Sahitya Akademi Award
->Jnanpith Award
->Padma Vibhushan, etc.
He probably used to write revolutionary poems even in a country that was under emergency and everyone was bowing his pens before the majestic power.
Well, Dinkar was the only poet who never got away from the public even after being close to power. His writings remained authentic in every era.
What did he say about himself?
->“Just as I have been squabbles between Iqbal and Rabindra all my life, so I have been taking tussles between Gandhi and Marx all my life. Therefore, the color that is formed by multiplying white with red is the color of my poem.
I believe that eventually, this color will also be the personality of Bharatvarsh.”