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MITTI KI TARAH MITTI Conversation With Siraj Saxena
There is nothing better than dialogue to learn, teach and understand. This book is written in dialogue style. Siraj Saxena's conversation with art critic and author Rakesh Shrimal is interesting. In the conversation, Siraj's attachment to art, its imitation, and the act of flourishing have been understood. This is also an account of his life. Reading this dialogue is merely not just getting to know the art world and Siraj Saxena, a distinguished artist of our time. This dialogue is also a journey in itself. It is very humane and artistic. In a way, it is our return to the home of art.
KISSE CYCLE KE
In my school life, I read a story called 'Cycle ki Sawaari' written by Sudarshan. Our childhood was not dependent on the materialistic needs of today. Having a car was a sign of affluence. It was the cycle that used to sell a lot like secondhand two-wheelers are sold today. There used to be a cycle mechanics shop at every crossroads and market. That feeling awakened after a long time while reading 'Kisse Cycle Ke'. The poetry collection is 'Akash Kusum'. In today's fast-running life, the cycle is just like 'Akash Kusum'. We went to the place of our friend and author of this book Mr. Siraj Saxena. Due to the hard work of Siraj ji, this book is in front of us all today. This book is a unique combination of memory and present aspiration. The description of various fields of cycle lovers in dialogues makes this book even more useful. Through this book, we will be part of the live stream of history currently being made.
AAKASH EK TAAL HAI
It is a bit difficult to tell whether Seeraj is basically a painter or a craftsman. Perhaps he considers himself a painter first. His sculpture engraved in the National Gandhi Museum Delhi has earned a lot of fame. He has also established many sculptures in foreign countries. Looking at the recent inclination of the artist from the painting to the craft and clothes, one thing can be clearly felt that there is a Gandhian simplicity in his artwork. You will find this simplicity in his small notes as well.
The articles in this book focus mainly on places or people. At many places you will experience how places turn into faces. He goes to Khajuraho and does his drawings in front of the idols there opening up the mystery of Khajuraho in front of us. Similarly wandering through Keoladeo's Ghana (Sanctuary), Periyar's forest, Kandariya Mahadev, Bedaghat, Raigarh, Dharamjaigarh, Kolkata, Taiwan, Majorca( Spain) , Broszkow ( Poland) and Danube ( Serbia) etc. allow us not only to see the places through the eyes of an artist but gives a feeling of touching them.
Simit Simit Jal
Siraj Saxena has been a wanderer in both life and art. He is a lover of both life and art. That's why the details of such small moments in life are visible in his writings. This is an autobiography as well as a work of art. Both the art of living and the life of art are beautifully intermingled in this work.
Events, characters, expectations, curiosities, observations, surprises, and often forgotten experiences of everyday life flash and dissolve in this narrative. This is a book out of conversation and its immediacy, spontaneity and warmth are all evident in it.
Kala Ki Jaghen कला की जगहें
Siraj Saxena is an Indian artists who has traveled a lot for the understanding and sake of art. He has been to many such art centers where he would probably have been the first Indian artist to visit. Seeraj is also a Hindi prose writer of his own kind. He has meticulously recorded the surroundings, relations, scenes, dialogues and many human expressions during this movement and migration with innate humanity and sensitive artistic touch. Such diaries in Hindi are rare not only of artists but even of writers.This book can also be seen as an interesting and intimate account of numerous moments and artists about whom we do not get much opportunity and source to know and understand much more.
Cycle Kavitayein
If cycling becomes an integral part of the lifestyle, then we talk about it with our friends. Sometimes we even go to our friends' houses by bicycle. I had gone on a cycle from my house in Vaishali Ghaziabad to Prayag Ji's house in Noida Sector 93A, along with my friend and neighbor Sanjeev Ji. One afternoon while sitting on the lawn of Prayag Ji's society, I told him that it would be great if he would write poems on a bicycle, I would paint, and together we would create a cycle poetry book. Prayag ji was pleased to hear this, and within a week he wrote the poems and sent them to me. Then after taking some time, I made the pictures. It is expected that this book will inspire children as well as elders to adopt cycles in life. After all, it is the bicycle that makes life poetic.