Sachchidananda Vatsyayan - Literary Works

Literary Works

Poetry anthologies:

• Bhagndoot (1933)
• Chinta (1942)
• Ityalam (1946)
• Hari ghaas par kshan-bhar (1949)
• Baawra aheri (1954)
• Indradhanu raunde hue ye (1957)
• Ari o karuna prabhamaya (1959)
• Aangan ke paar dvaar (1961)
• Poorva (1965)
• Sunahale Shaivaal (1965)
• Kitni naavon mein kitni baar (1967)
• Kyonki main usei jaanta hoon (1969)
• Saagar-mudra (1970)
• Pahle main sannata bunta hoon (1973)
• Mahavriksha ke neeche (1977)
• Nadi ki baank par chhaya (1982)
• Sadanira-1 (1986)
• Sadanira-2 (1986)
• Aisa koi ghar aapne dekha hai (1986)
• Maruthal (1995)
• Sarjana ke kshan (Selection)
• Thaur thikaane (Handwritten, circulated zeroxed)
• Karaawas ke din (Trans. from English by Uday Shankar Shrivastava)
• Kavishri ( Ed. Shiyaram Sharan Gupt)
• Aaj ke lokpriy kavi (Ed. Vidya Niwas Mishra)
• Kaavya-stabak ( Ed by Vidya Niwas Mishra & Ramesh Chandra Shah)
• Sannate ka chhand (Ed by Ashok Vajpeyi)
• Ajneya: Sanklit kavitayen (Ed by Namvar Singh)

Novels:

• Shekhar: Ek Jeevani I (1941)
• Shekhar: Ek Jeevani II (1944)
• Shekhar: Ek Jeevni III (Unpublished)
• Nadi ke dweep (1952)
• Apne-apne ajnabi (1961)
• Barahkhambha (co-writer, 1987)
• Chhaya mekhal (Incomplete, 2000)
• Beenu bhagat (Incomplete, 2000)

Stories anthologies:

• Vipathga (1937)
• Parmpara (1944)
• Kothri ki baat (1945)
• Sharnaarthi (1948)
• Jaydol (1951)
• Amarvallari tatha anya kahaniyan(1954)
• Kadiayan tatha anya kahaniyan (1957)
• Acchute phool tatha anya kahaniyan (1960)
• Ye tere pratiroop (1961)
• Jigyasa tatha anya kahaniyan (1965)
• Meri priy kahaniyan (Selection,2004)
• Chhorra hua rasta (Sampoorn kahanitan-1, 1975)
• Lautti pagdandiyan (Sampoorn kahaniyan-2, 1975)
• Sampoorn Kahaniyan (2005)
• Adam Ki diary (Ed by Nand Kishore Acharya, 2002)

Play:

• Uttar Priyadarshi

Travelogue:

• Arei Yayavar Rahega Yaad (1953)
• Kirnon ki khoj mein (Selection,1955)
• Ek Boond Sahsa Uchhli (1960)

Criticism:

• Trishanku
• Hindi sahitya: Ek adhunik paridrishya
• Atmanepad
• Aatmparak
• Aalwaal
• Likhi kagad kore
• Jog likhi
• Adyatan
• Samvatsar
• Smriti ke paridrishya
• Srot aur setu
• Vyakti aur vyavastha
• Yug-sandhiyon par
• Dhaar aur kinaare
• Bhartiya kala drishti
• Smritichhanda
• Kendra aur paridhi
• Srijan: kyon air kaise
• Kavi-Nikash
• Kavi-drishti (Prefaces)
• Tadbhav (Selection by Ashok Vajpeyi)
• Lekhak ka Dayittva (Ed by Nand Kishore Acharya)
• Khule Mein Khada Ped (Ed by Nand Kishore Acharya)

Light Essyas:

• Sab rang
• Sab rang aur kuchh raag
• Kahan hai dwaraka
• Chhaya ka jangal

Diary:

• Bhavanti
• Antara
• Shaswati
• Shesha
• Kaviman (Ed by Ila Dalmia Koirala)

Memoirs:

• Smriti-lekha
• Smriti ke galiyaron se

Edited:

• Taar Saptak
• Doosra Saptak
• Teesra Saptak
• Chautha Saptak
• Pushkarini
• Naye ekanki
• Nehru abhinandan granth (co-editor)
• Roopambara (Sumitrnandan Pant abhinandan granth)
• Homvati smarak granth
• Sarjan aur sampreshan
• Sahitya ka parivesh
• Sahity aur samaj parivartan
• Samajik yatharth aur katha-bhasha
• Samkaleen kavita mein chhand
• Bhavishya aur sahitya
• Indian Poetic Tradition (With Vidya Niwas Mishra and Leonard Nathan)

Introducing:

• Naye Sahitya Srishta-1 Raghuveer Sahay: Seedihiyon par dhoop mein
• Naye Sahitya Srishta-2 Sarveshawar Dayal Saxena: Kaath ki ghantiyan
• Naye Sahitya Srishta-3 Ajit Kumar: Ankit hone do
• Naye Sahitya Srishta-4 Shanti Mehrotra

Conversations:

• Aparoksh, Ramesh Chandra Shah & others
• Rachna: Kyon aur kinke beech, Sharad Kumar, Geeti Sen & Others
• Agyeya Apne bare mein (AIR Archives), Raghuveer Sahay & Gopal Das
• Kavi Nayak Ajneya, Ila Dalmia & Neelima Mathur

In English:

• Prison days and other poems (Poetry)
• A sense of time (Essays)

Selection (general): Sanchayita (Ed Nand Kishore Acharya)

Translations:

• Shrikant (Sharat Chandra, from Bangla, 1944)
• Gora (Rabindranath Thakur, from Bangla)
• Raja (Rabindranath Thakur, from Bangla)
• Vivekanand (With Raghuvir Sahay, from Bangla)
• The resignation (Jainendra Kumar, into English)
• The seventh horse of the sun (Dharmveer Bharti, into English)
• The Silent waters (Poems of Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena, in 'Thought'0
• Vazir ka Feela (Ivo Andric, from English)
• Mahayatra (Par Lagerkvist's trilogy, from English)

Self-translated works:

• Islands in the stream (Nadi ke dweep, into English)
• To each his stranger (Apne apne ajnabi, into English)
• The unmastered lute and other poems (Asadhya Veena and other poems into English, Ed by Pritish Nandy)
• The revolving rock and other poems (Chakrant Shila and other poems into English, Ed Pritish Nandy)
• First Person, Second Person (Poems, into English with Leonard Nathan)
• Signs and silences (Poems, into English with Leonard Nathan)
• Nilambari (Poems, into English)
• Truculent clay (Bhavanti, into English with Manas Mukul Das)
• Preparing the ground (Antara, into English with Manas Mukul Das)

Translations in other languages: (Indian languages list too long)

• German: Sekh Ktoratien (By Lothar Lutze)
• : Stand-orte (By Lothar Lutze)
• Swedish: Den arket (By orten Al Bud)
• Servo-Crotian: Catoetien
• : prvo liche drugo liche
• :Vsak ima svoyega tuicha (By Tregoslav Andrich)

Films on Ajneya:

• Sarswat Van Ka Bavra Aheri, Producer Durgavati Singh, Doordarshan, New Delhi
• Sannate ka Chhand, Dir. Pramod & Neelima Mathur, Vatsal Nidhi, New Delhi
• Deep Akela, Dir. Pramod Mathur, MGAHVV, Wardha
• Kavi Bharti, Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal