With the nation remembering Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary, a group of artists commemorated a four-century-old incident of staging “Dharna Satyagarh” by poets in the princely state of Marwar. One hundred and eighty-five poets sacrificed their lives while protesting against the state.
The artists staged a play called Satyagarh at different places to salute the poets. “The incident happened in 1643 of Vikrma Samvant (1,586 AD) at Auwa under Pali district, where the poets staged a sit-in.
“But when the then Raja, Uday Singh, refused to listen them, the 185 poets took their lives by stabbing themselves,” says the ex-president of state heritage protection council, Onkar Singh Lakahwat.
According to Lakhawat, the poets supported the late king Maldev’s elder son, Chandarsen, to step in his late father’s shoes to become king.
But his younger brother Uday Singh became the king with the help of Emperor Akbar.
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Buddha ropes in PWD for pending work
Age Correspondent
kolkata
Jan. 30: Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday roped in state PWD department in Eden Gardens to complete all the pending construction works within the extended timeframe given by the ICC. After the prodding of the chief minister, state PWD minister Kshiti Goswami and his seniors engineers swung into action to pre-empt further loss of face of the Bengal cricket. Meanwhile, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee assured that he would take up the case with ICC president Sharad Pawar.
Accompanied by the top engineers of his department, the state PWD minister paid a visit to the underconstruction ground. After the inspection, Mr Goswami said: “Not even five per cent of the work is left. The civil construction part is complete.”