Fumble and Rumble marked festival of plays
Fumble and Rumble marked festival of plays
Lalit Gupta
Organized by J&K Cultural Academy after a gap of two years, the magical journey of the Festival of Plays 2020-21, here, started with an opening-day fumble and also ended with a rumble. On the bright side, it was also marked by a few takeaways.
The Fumble: Disruption in the normal working of J&K Cultural Academy due to stopgap bureaucrats as Secretaries came to the surface on the opening day of theatre fest when a sudden power shutdown minutes before the opening time happened. The Academy officials scurrying to get the last minute sanction for diesel to run the emergency generator at the Abhinav Theatre, a sad commentary on its working was witnessed by the audience who had to wait outside the hall for more than one hour.
Dogri Sanstha Sammaan conferred on prominent litterateurs, artists
Dogri Sanstha Sammaan conferred on prominent litterateurs, artists
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 24: As a part of celebration of “Dogri Manayata Din” Dogri Sanstha Jammu today honoured six prominent persons from the fields of Literature, Art and Journalism with Dogri Sanstha Sammaan- 2020 in an online function.
Those who were conferred with the Sammaan, include: Gyaneshwar Sharma – a senior Dogri writer, Chaman Arora – a veteran short story writer, Santosh Sangra – a well-known theatre and radio artist and a senior Dogri writer, Deepak Kumar – a renowned theatre director, Ashok Sharma – a senior journalist and Dr Ratan Basotra -for having bagged the translation award from Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.