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| English translation of Bawa Jitto launched | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu , March 22: Padmashree Professor Ramnath Shastri’s Bawa Jitto in its English rendering by Dr. Vandhana Sharma Director, School of Languages and Literature, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University Katra was launched in an impressive Book-Launch ceremony amidst a galaxy of academicians and writers here in Jammu.
The English translation of Bawa Jitto will strike a sympathetic chord among international readers, especially with its proletarian centres of appeal as well as for its larger social, cultural and mythic implications.
Madan lal Sharma, Member of the Parliament ( Lok Sabha) was the chief guest on the occasion and Prof. G.K Das, scholar of international repute and former Vice Chancellor Utkal University, Odisha, Prof. Lalit Magotra, President, Dogri Sanstha, Jammu and Balwant Thakur, Director, Natrang were the Guests of Honor.In his presidential address, Sh. Madan lal Sharma, M.P ( Lok Sabha) appreciated the endeavour of Dr. Vandhana Sharma and hoped that she becomes the torch bearer of globalising the duggar folklore by means of translations. He said that Dr. Vandhana Sharma’s rendering into English of the Dogri play Bawa Jitto by the late lamented Professor and versatile litterateur Ram Nath Shastri is an apt cultural feat in succession to Jammu’s leading theatre director Balwant Thakur’s epoch-making productions of the same classic at the national level.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Vandhana Sharma expressed that her attempt in the translation of Bawa Jitto from Dogri to English is a drop in the ocean of translation, which brings the readers, writers and critics of one nation into contact with those of others. She said that her key effort in the rendering of Bawa Jitto is to translate Bawa Jitto from ‘Dogra Peasant hero’ to ‘Indian Peasant hero’. In his address, Sh. Balwant Thakur, Director, Natrang who brought Bawa Jitto on stage at the national level by means of his exceptional theatrical abilities, creativity and direction shared his views about the efforts of Natrang to bring the dogri folklore at the national and international front.
It is pertinent mentioning here Padmashree Professor Ramnath Shastri’s Bawa Jitto is an epoch- making Dogri play which unfolds the life- sketch of Dogra folk hero Bawa Jitto who sacrificed his life 500 years ago while fighting against the oppression of the peasants by the Jaagirdaars. The legend of Bawa Jitto has been explored by various writers and scholars of Jammu and Kashmir. Traditionally the legend used to be sung by ‘Karkan’ narrative singers, who had preserved this tragic tale for centuries. With the publication of this play in the year 1985 by Professor Ramnath Shastri and the initiative of Natrang theatre Group.
Some eminent scholars and writers present on the occasion were Padmashree Neelamber Dev Sharma, Prof. S,K Sharma, Prof. K.B Razdan and Prof. Veena Gupta . The vote of thanks was delivered by Dr. Garima Gupta and post graduate students of School of Languages & Literature, Vani Awasthi and Mehak Dogra conducted the proceedings.
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