MeraPahad Community Of Uttarakhand Lovers

Garhwali, Uttarakhand, Himalayan Folk Literature
  Dr Shiv Dayal Joshi : Who wrote about Raptures in  Garhwali Folk Songs
                                                              Bhishma Kukreti
 Dr Shiv Dayal Joshi was born in village, Poni, Patti Basar of Tihri Garhwal . After completing his post graduation in Hindia he did research on Folk Songs of Garhwal.
He was awarded for his research oriented article “ Samajik Kala Shilip: Premchand” by Panjab Saurabh
  His notable work is on the raptures and emotions in Garhwali folk songs and he published his work as “ Lok gee ton men Ras Yojna” in 1985. This book is about various emotions and raptures in folk songs.
He also published more than thirty articles  on various aspects of Garhwali folk songs
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Garhwali prose maker-1
             Mohan Lal Negi :Great Garhwali Language Story teller
                                                          Bhishma Kukreti
              It is not possible to describe the history of Garhwali language story writing without mentioning the name of   Mohan Lal Negi. His contribution in Garhwali language modern story writing is remembered for accelerating the pace in Garhwali prose creation.
Born in 1930, Mohan lal Negi belongs to village Belgaon, Patti Athur of Tihri Garhwal. After graduation he completed L.L.b and started his practice as advocate in Tihri . He started to write in Hindi and published stories like ‘Tihri ke Ghataghar’ and ‘Naukar’ but after the influence of dr Mahaveer Gairola , he started to write in Garhwali .
      Mohan Lal Negi assisted Dr Mahaveer Gairola in editing, writing articles, publishing and distribution of ‘Naitiki’ magazine a quarterly magazine from Tihri.
  Mohan Negi  published his first collection of modern Garhwali language stories in 1967. Critics appreciated his work and called his work as mile stone in modern Garhwali language story world.  Negi  published his second modern story collection ‘ Burans ki Peed’. no doubt his stories are more of preaching and happy ending but there we find wit, reality and can see the historical happenings in Garhwal in his stories. ‘Dola Palaki’ is one example wherein he takes us the resistance shown by upper class against the Harijan using Dola Palki in their marriage procession. This story shows his capability to use reality and at the same time to hook the readers by his language, story telling style, creating tension because of conflicting situation or self interests of two individuals or classes , uses of common proverb for providing speed to story and common dialogues of his area.
The main specialty of Mohan Lal is to retain the dialects of Tihri area in his writing . He also wrote a novel ‘Jaumala’. He was influenced by Dr Mahaveer Gairola, therefore, the stories are having touch for dreaming  equality in the human society and at the same time shows the importance of spirituality too. Dr Mahaveer Gairola  is firm believer that if Communism should be deeply rooted in India communism should aquire Indian spirituality in its principles.
  Mohan Lal  was awarded for his writing by Jaishree Samman’ by Garhwali Bhasha Parishad , Dehradun. Jay Shri Samman and Navani Puruskar provided by private organizations but these two awards are equal to  Padma  award in Garhwali li literature.
  He also carved the pictures of Gandhi, Lenin, Radhakrishnan, Meerabai on copper plates an d was appreciated by art collectors and art lovers.
 Mohan Lal Negi will be remembered for his stories publication when there was a strong wave of creating poetries in Garhwali language specially in Delhi (in sixties to nineties Delhi was also capital of Garhwali language creativity) and for insisting regional dialects in Garhwali literature.
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Art of Himalaya
Art and artists of Garhwal and Kumaun, Uttarakhand
Garhwali Chitrkala
       Line  Drawing Artist and Painter    Bharat Singh Rautela
            Bhishma Kukreti
     There is no much detail available about birth and death of Bharat Singh Rautela. However, it is a known fact that Bharat Singh Rautela was contemporary of world famous drawing artist and painter Puran Chandra Badola of Badoli  Chaundkot, Pauri Garhwal . Bharat Singh Rautela spent his life in old Tihri till his death. He used to publish his drawings and paintings in famous magazines as Sarswati and Madhuri . Many of his paintings and line drawings are in Tihri Naresh Sangralaya Tihri.. Bhakt darshan praised his art and painting very much in many articles.
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Rajendra Prasad Dabral : The Expert of Water Colour and Portraits
                            Bhishma Kukreti
      Most of the drawing related migrated Uttarakhandi artists  have one exclusivity that most of the artists do not forget to paint/draw the natural beauty of Garhwal -Kumaun. Rajendra Prasad Dabral is such water colour painter and portraitist who never forget to draw some subject of Dabralsyun, Gangasalan , Pauri Garhwal , Hinwal river etc in his painting.
  Born on 5th July, 1950 in a village of Dabralsyun Gangasalan Pauri Garhwal, Rajendra Dabral completed his early schooling from  Matiyali Inter College, Sheela Patti.  Dabrals of Dabralsyun were famous for their studies in Sanskrit and it was said that the caws, buffalos and pets talk and interact in Sanskrit because there is one Sanskrit College in Timli Dabralsyun. However,  Rajendra had inclination towards art from his childhood. His relatives used to say that at the age of five or six child Rajendra used to draw pictures by wood coal and wherever the people used to find black picture, people of his village used to know that Rajendra spent some time there. Rajendra joined Lucknow College of arts and Crafts and got national diploma from there. After passing diploma , he completed his master degree in arts and Crafts from there. He worked for some time as designer with akhil Bhartiya Hast Shilp Mandal . He worked as designer in many documentary films as ‘Yudh xetra Me Jhansi  ki Rani and science related documentary films..later on Rajendra Dabral choose to teach art and craftsmanshipin Delhi.
   Rajnedra Dabral is expert of water colour and portraits . He exhibited his paintings and drawings  . Main exclusivity of Dabral is that Rajendra brings many images of rural Garhwal in his art. Once , he said to this author and Garhwali poet Vinod Uniyal that after so many years of migrating from his village,  he could not forget the beauty of Dabraksyun, the hills, the trees and specially river Hinwal.  This aspect forces him to bring images of Garhwal into his paintings and even in many portraits.
  He exhibited many times his paintings and portraits and got appreciations from national and international art critics. His paintings are in various national and international art museums.
  Kendriy Llit Kala  Acedemy and many organizations awarded Dabral for his devotion to art and paintings .
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उत्तराखण्ड की सांस्कृतिक नगरी अल्मोड़ा में जन्मी डा0 पूर्णिमा पाण्ड़े जी का नाम उन बहुचर्चित, बहुप्रशंसित, बहुलोकप्रिय कथक नृत्यांगनाओं में है जिन्होंने एक कुशल नृत्यांगना होने के साथ ही साथ एक कुशल प्रशासक के रूप में भी पर्याप्त ख्याति अर्जित की है। भारत के प्रतिष्ठित संगीत संस्थान भातखण्डे हिन्दुस्तानी संगीत महाविद्यालय लखनऊ की प्रथम महिला प्रधानाचार्य व भातखण्डे डीम्ड विश्वविद्यालय की प्रथम कुलपति होने का गौरव प्राप्त डा0 पाण्डे अपने आगामी सफर में एशिया के सर्वश्रेष्ठ संगीत एवं ललित कला प्रतिष्ठान इन्दिरा कला संगीत विश्वविद्यालय खैरागढ़ में कुलपति के पद पर रहीं। वर्तमान में आप अपनी जन्मभूमि उत्तराखण्ड की राजधानी देहरादून में संस्कृति विभाग के अन्तर्गत भातखण्डे हिन्दुस्तानी संगीत महाविद्यालय की सलाहकार के पद पर कार्यरत हैं।


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Sabhar- Srujan se Patrika, Jan-March 2011