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Kolkata,,
The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamiod Ansari has said that Sachidanand Hiranand Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’ belonged to an era where it was possible to be a master of many crafts. As a towering literary personality, he initiated new and experimental trends in almost all genres of literary writings including poetry, short stories, criticism, novels, travelogues, essays and drama. Addressing at the Birth Centenary celebrations of Sachidanand Hiranand Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’ at Kolkata today, he said that Ageyaya also ventured into journalism and took up causes of the poor and the oppressed and was a patriot and a revolutionary freedom fighter on whom Chandrashekhar Azad left a deep impression. He was a polyglot, well-versed in Hindi, English, Sanskrit and Persian. He also had a stint in Indian Army and took part in social movements for the benefit of the downtrodden. His interest also extended into academia, especially the teaching of Hindi. The range of his interests and the deep philosophical underpinnings of his literary output, which at a certain level resonates with Vedantic thought, have established him as a literary figure in the footsteps of Vishwa Kavi Rabindranath Tagore.
He said that Vatsyayanji struggled to make Hindi a vibrant, volatile, alive and growing language – not a “standard, well regulated and universally accessible form” of Hindi which he felt would only be good for official notifications and regulations. While such a standardized and dry language might be useful for spreading literacy, he felt that the logic of literacy can not be the logic of a national language. He very forcefully argued that a language cannot be an artificial creation like Esperanto but should be a growing, and therefore changing and stable language that grows from the depths of the minds of ordinary men and women.
