Pakistan is a paradigm example of a failed state that has undergone an extremely dangerous form of radical Islamisation.
Aansoo
Jai Shankar Prasad's Aansoo is an elegy composed in memory of his first
wife. His love for her was so intense that it threw him out of his usual
self-possession, but the poet recovered his balance. But before he did so, he
had embodied his illimitable agony in deathless melody in Aansoo. And he was
thus able to save his heart from breaking and rescue his personality from utter
collapse. .
Aansoo is a lyric of love. It has all the qualities of lyrical poetry, namely,
intensity of emotional experience, spontaneity of expression, subjectivity of
thought and feeling, unity of mood, idea or sentiment, loftiness of imagination,
depth of sensibility, succinctness of scope or brevity of form, resonance of
rhythm and liquidity of metrical movement.
Aansoo is thus a romantic lyrical elegy par excellence. It combines sweetness
with sadness but leaves an optimistic impression devoid of all pessimism. Aansoo
is a master piece of a classic of not only Hindi but of entire Indian
literature.
