BHAGWATI PRASAD DWIWEDI’S STORY ‘TAMASHABEEN’ SHOWS PREMCHAND’S COLOUR: Dr. SUBLAB

BHAGWATI PRASAD DWIWEDI’S STORY ‘TAMASHABEEN’ SHOWS PREMCHAND’S COLOUR: Dr. SUBLAB

1-AUG-ENG 19

RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

PATNA----------------------------The stories of the famous storyteller Bhagwati Prasad Dwivedi are sweet like the syrup of imagination on reality, but are heart touching. At many places in many of his stories, 'Katha-Samrat Munshi Premchand' is visible. The classicality and beauty of the story-craft in his story 'Tamashbeen' is capable of attracting the reader's mind. It contains various flavours, colours and experiences of life.

This view was expressed by Dr Anil Sulabh while presiding over the first issue and birth anniversary celebration of Bihar Hindi Sahitya Sammelan's much-awaited solo story reading series 'Kathayami Katha', which began on Thursday with the birth anniversary of Katha-Samrat Munshi Premchand. He said that 'Kathayami Katha' is such a literary event, which gives a storyteller a full opportunity to speak and also to listen to instant criticism. This also helps the storyteller to know his own merits and demerits and to improve them.

Recalling Mahakavi Tulsi and Katha-Samrat Premchand, Dr. Sulabh said that both the great writers are the pride and light of Hindi literature. Tulsi was a folk hero. He transformed Indian society with his literature. On the other hand, Munshi Premchand, who started his literary journey with Urdu stories like 'Soze-Watan', became famous as the story-king of Hindi because he had grasped the pulse of the folk life and problems of India. His stories were the stories of the common people of India. They had the voice of the pain and retaliation of folk life. That is why the common readers found them to be their own stories.

Welcoming the guests, the vice-president of the conference, Dr. Madhu Verma said that Premchand is a storyteller of the understanding of the era. He understood human sensibilities deeply and gave words to them. That is why Premchand is relevant even today.

Presenting his quick review on the stories 'Tamashbeen' and 'Kavi-Sammelan' read by Dwivedi ji, the famous storyteller and critic Dr. Nikhileshwar Prasad Verma said that whatever happens around a storyteller, comes in the stories. Both the stories read are based on reality and leave a deep impact. Today's man turns even the moment of pain into a spectacle. The story titled 'Kavi-Sammelan' underlines the falling standard of the Kavi-Sammelans being organized today.

Senior storyteller Rameshchandra, storyteller Jayant, short storyteller Siddheshwar, Dr. Shashibhushan Singh, Dr. Ratneshwar Singh, Ramesh Srivastava etc. also expressed their views on the stories read. The library minister of the conference, E. Ashok Kumar read the introduction of the storyteller.

In the event, writers like Dr. Pushpa Jamuar, Dr. Poonam Anand, Vibha Rani Srivastava, Prof. Sunil Kumar Upadhyay, Acharya Vijay Gunjan, Shubh Chandra Sinha, Dr. Dhruv Kumar, Dr. Vidya Chaudhary, Chanda Mishra, Dr. Shalini Pandey, Dr. Meena Kumari Parihar, Meera Srivastava, Madhurani Lal, Jai Prakash Pujari, Nibha Chaudhary, Indu Bhushan Sahay, Praveer Kumar Pankaj, Bindeshwar Prasad Gupta, Ashwini Kaviraj, Kaushalendra Kumar, Dhananjay Kumar, Dr. Chandrashekhar Azad, Dr. Vijay Kumar, Radhika Sharma, Shyam Manohar Mishra, Raj Kumar Choubey, Bhaskar Tripathi and other intellectuals were present. The stage was conducted by Brahmanand Pandey and the vote of thanks was given by Krishna Ranjan Singh.