GENEROUS KINGS LIKE KIRTYANAND SINGH KEPT LITERATURE AND CULTURE ALIVE: DIXIT

PATNA (RNI) In India, art, music, and literature have received patronage and nurture from generous royal families. Generous great men like Raja Bahadur Kirtyanand Singh have made incomparable contributions to the preservation of Indian culture. Therefore, they are worthy of respect and remembrance.

Prof. Surya Prasad Dixit, President of the Rashtriya Bhasha Prachar Samiti, Wardha, and the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Prayag, founded by Mahatma Gandhi, expressed this sentiment while inaugurating the birth anniversary celebrations and poetry conference held at the Bihar Hindi Sahitya Sammelan on Sunday. He congratulated the Sahitya Sammelan for its continued activity and said that the declining interest in serious literary events is a matter of concern. All enlightened individuals, society, and the government should be aware of this.

Presiding over the ceremony, Conference President Dr. Anil Sulabh said that the Banaili Raj has greatly benefited the Bihar Hindi Sahitya Sammelan. The conference hall was constructed with the financial assistance of ten thousand rupees from Raja Bahadur Kirtyanand Singh. This amount, given in 1936, is equivalent to 385,10,000 rupees today. In those days, 10 grams of gold was worth 30 rupees. Today, it is 115,530 rupees. He said that Kirtyanand Singh was not only a saintly man with tender emotions and a literary consciousness, but also a delicate poet. Writers and artists were highly respected in his court. He would award poets with gold coins for each of their works.

Senior Vice President of the conference and renowned literary figures Jiyalal Arya, Dr. Madhu Verma, Dr. Ratneshwar Singh, and Vibha Rani Srivastava also expressed their views.

The poetry conference organized on this occasion began with a speech by Chanda Mishra. Senior poets Sunil Kumar, Dr. Richa Verma, Dr. Meena Kumari Parihar, poetess Shama Kausar 'Sharma', Jyoti Mishra, Kumar Anupam, Neeta Sahay, Engineer Ashok Kumar, Dr. R. Pravesh, Indu Bhushan Sahay, Prerna Priya, Sanjay Lal Chaudhary and other poets and poetesses offered their poetic tributes. Administrative officer of the stage, Nandan Kumar Meet, Dukh Daman Singh, Suraj Kumar, Kumari Menaka, Suraj Kumar and other intellectuals were present at the event.