Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 17: Natrang with the support of Directorate of Environment and Remote Sensing today staged Balwant Thakur’s Dogri play ‘Duniyan Par Us Bhaar Ni Bange’ here in the auditorium of Government College for Women (GCW), Parade.
Om Prakash ‘Vidyarthi’, Director, Department of Environment and Remote Sensing, was the chief guest on the occasion.
Written and directed by Balwant Thakur and assisted by Neeraj Kant, this highly relevant play to the times speaks about the cruelty being meted out to the mother earth in the hands of the present generation, as knowingly or unknowingly we are at war with ‘Mother Nature’ and are destroying all its resources.
As the play starts, we find the Dev Raj Indra presiding over the court of Gods, as he enquires the welfare of the earth. The Narad comes in and states, “The beautiful earth is full of poverty, hunger and desperation”.
Dev Raj Indera is surprised to know all this, while Narad goes on to explain that illiteracy has tightened its grips upon the masses and unawareness has made them to live like beasts. Hunger prevails over the globe. Forests are being cut down, lakes and rivulets are drying out and on the other hand population is exploding fast.
Indera goes excited enough to have a look at the earth. He finds the masses violently demanding their basic rights from the power brokers. He can see the mother “Nature” in cage and a terrible desperation upon her face.
To relieve people of this pain, sufferings and desperation, Indera sends a saint to the world, who through his teachings makes the masses aware, revolutionizes the situation and helps the people to get rid of exploiters. Finally, the people decide to improve upon their lives and pledge to conserve the Mother Nature by planting trees and nurturing clean environment.
The artists who participated in this play include Mahikshit Singh, Mohd Yaseen, Rajan Thakyal, Aishwarya Sathe, Meenakshi Bhagat, Shivam Singh, Ankush Lakhnotra, Rishabh Sharma, Sachin Sharma, Vishal Sharma, Piyush Anand and Kuldeep Angral.
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