In the era of this busy urban life marked by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, thespirit of change --- change not for the better but for the best utopian visionguides us. While the reformist ideals of Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Swami Vivekanada...

In the era of this busy urban life marked by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, thespirit of change --- change not for the better but for the best utopian visionguides us. While the reformist ideals of Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Swami Vivekanadacompel us to reflect upon the charisma of Renaissance in Europe; the noblevision of Acharya Ramchandra Shukla, Mahadevi Verma, Pandit Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’,Jaishankar Prasad, Sumitranandan Pant and the like guides us to walk on thevirtuous path of Neo-Romanticism or ‘Chhayavad.’ Interestingly; unlike the Renaissance,Reformist and Romantic Movements of Europe; our motherland, Bharat has been thereceiver of this endowment of enshrining all these elements, the elements whichare a testimony to the zenith of the enduring and endeavoring spirit of humanmarvel, in a single grit of time. The author of the story ‘Pita Ka Patra’, Munavvar Ali ‘Masoom’ invites the youngpens not only to resonate but also to rejuvenate the legacy of this rebellioustradition of ‘Chhayavadi Punarjagaran’ and spread the scent of this evergreenjasmine in the moist air of mother Earth and reverberate the melodious music ofthis holy Veena to the divine abode paying tribute to Goddess Saraswati.