Tawi Festival enters day 2
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 2: “If I hadn’t become the Sadr-i-Riyasat, the Dogras would have been subdued by now.”
This was stated by Dr. Karan Singh, the royal scion of erstwhile J&K State and senior Congress leader who remained Sadr-i-Riyasat of the erstwhile J&K State.
He further said that he was proud of becoming Sadr-i-Riyasat.
Dr. Singh was speaking at the second day of second edition of four day annual event ‘Tawi Festival’ at Amar Mehal Museum and Library (AMML) and was in talk with Harbans Singh, who himself has written several books including the one on Maharaja Hari Singh.
Day 2 of the Festival saw an increase in the audience with talks on ‘Tawi River, Then and Now’ by Prof. Suman Jamwal from Department of History, University of Jammu followed by a beautiful insight into various works being carried out by INTACH by Bindu Manchanda, Head HCCD, Delhi.
Arvind Kotwal from INTACH, Jammu Chapter gave a detailed overview of the Traditional Vaishno Devi route.
The panel discussion on ‘Regional Literature and Translation: Challenges and Initiatives’ curated by Lalit Gupta was an eye opener with the panelists being Lalit Magotra of Dogri Sanstha and Javed Rahi, Gojri Writer.
Colours to the programme were added when the noted composer and singer of Dogri language, Seema Anil Sehgal regaled the audience with some of the selected poems in Dogri.
She began with singing an ode to holy river Tawi, penned by Bishan Singh ‘Dardi’ and recited a hymn in Sanskrit in praise of Tawi.
Other compositions by Seema included a poem each by Padma Sachdev and Yash Sharma.
It was sheer display of the works of a master composer when Seema sang ‘Jhajjar Gori Te Tawi Bind Saanwali’.
Seema was accompanied by Rakesh Anand on flute, Sunil Sharma on synthesizer, Purshottam on Tabla/ Mridangam and Kamal Sharma on Dholak.
Jyotsana Singh, Director AMML and daughter of Dr. Karan Singh had words of praise for Seema and other artists who performed today.
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