 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 12: The inmates of Jammu Red Cross Society (JRC) Home for Handicapped, Udheywala and Bhartiya Lok Sangeet Kala Sansthan (BLSKS) celebrated Lohri with the families of Governing body members of home. The function was inaugurating by chief guest Mayor, Jammu. Rajinder Sharma. Jammu Municipal Corporation, Sat Pal Sharma president of Yog Ashram, Dr Rakesh Sharma, Sat Pal Sharma & Satish Sharma, V.K. Magotra, Former Regional Director, Directorate of Field Publicity and Dr. M.L. Dogra, Former Regional Director, Song and Drama Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India were Guest of Honors. The chief guest while speaking on the occasion congrulate the orginizers of Bhartiya Lok Sangeet Lok Kala Sanstan and home for handicapped for Udheywala Jammu for organizing of outstanding program and for their full support. The artistes of BLSKS who presented the traditional folk items with specially prepared Item "Dine Jagte Chhaje Fari Laye, Rati Hiran Bhi Gehlen Chari Paye", Gidha Chanjjar and folk dance is of Jammu & Kashmir by the renowned artists of J&K were K.K. Joshi, Raju Bajgal, Rajni Gupta, Neelam Gandotra, Kamla Devi, Mukesh Singh, Sanjeev Sodhi, Rahul Kumar, Vandana Gupta, Pari Mahajan, Anjana Devi, Chaht Chadha, Sonia.
Over 60 inmates including 20 deaf & dumb unturned about their physical capabilities gave scintillating cultural performance. It was indeed an emotional movements for all the witness the hidden talents of physically challenged inmates who mesmerized the audience with their cultural instincts. The Artists of BLSKS stages theme based colorful cultural program focusing the attention of the audience on the importance of the celebration of the day.
Dr. M.L. Dogra said in his speech, especially I want to draw your attention towards significance of Lohri in Duggar Pardesh, as the same is fading day by day in Duggar Land due to little knowledge of our folk culture. The festival of Lohri is marked by the worship of Kuldev, God of Fire, and God Sun, the festival of Dugar Pradesh. Today this style does not include people of all religions and castes - as a result of this, our important style, is on the verge of extinction. I have heard, danced and sang this mode in the village with the elders in UdhampurDistt. of Jammu province. Haran and Chhajja, Dandaras connect us with our clan gods, Haran - of spiritual power and having a beautiful lion (Batvud) in the head, is considered the king of the jungle, and the peacock, the sacred and peace, Saraswati, is the symbol of education. Our elders used to tell that the deer king Mandlik who protects us from negative energies. You will surprise know that Raja Mandlik was forgotten his kingdom magic by Queen Sirgala, of Godh Bengal, the friendship of the Kalibeer and Raja Mandlik was Commendable. Now we call the special, folk stage styles of our region Jammu Haran, Chhajja, Dandaras, due to lack of complete knowledge of them, due to not being used according to the spirit of the style, these styles of ours are prone to disappear , moving towards. You will know On the day of Lohri, artists of all religions, gathered together, carried Haran from house to house, to wish for prosperity and happiness in the houses, for a bright future, because in our homes Raja Mandlik, Baba Kaliveer's, place in our houses. But due to near to state Punjab we accepted the story of Dulla Bhatti of Punjab, Sundar-Mundariye, and we are forgetting our rich Traditional Lohri style (Haran and Chhaja, Dandars) in Duggar Land. The second balcony, which is a symbol of knowledge and Saraswati, also belongs to Raja Mandlik, Queen Sirgala. Because in the garden of Rani Sirgala in Bengal all the processions were made deer, peacocks, partridges and other animals and by the order of Guru-Gorkhnath, Baba Kaliveer, all those captive animals were freed and since then this deer chhaja tradition, in our Duggar country Started 0n the day. Since then, there was a tradition of making peacocks on the wall with cow dung in our houses. We can say that the festival of Lohri is a symbol of the worship of our family deities. We need to pay attention to this every one people of Duggar Land at we should not leave folk music styles to a particular caste and religion, although it is a common heritage of all people. The artistes of BLSKS who presented the traditional folk items with specially prepared Item "DineJagteChhajeFariLaye , Rati HiranBhiGehlen Chari Paye"by the renowned artists of J&K were K.K. Joshi , Raju Bajgal, Rajni Gupta, NeelamGandotra, Kamla Devi, Mukesh Singh, Sanjeev Sodhi, Rahul Kumar, Vandana Gupta, Pari Mahajan, Anjana Devi, Chaht Chadha, Sonia. |
