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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
TAWI SPEAKS is in fact a small effort from my side for preserving and promoting my mother tongue Dogri and cultural traditions of Duggar Pradesh. Through the write ups in the book what I wish to state is that the sacred river Tawi, which is also called Surya Putri and finds references in religious books is in fact a life line of Jammu province and speaks a lot about the sufferings of regional language and cultural heritage but we should have that sight to see, hearing capacity to listen to her and belongingness to feel the pathos.
We all know that we should put in our best with all honest approach to fulfill our responsibilities towards our mother land. But we seldom care for same. We need to seek lessons and inspiration from those regions like North-East India and South India especially who are so much concerned about their languages and cultural traditions. They preserve and promote same Generations to Generations taking it as their foremost responsibility. On the contrary, we have so called ‘Think Tank’ who prefers to argue in aimless debates just to project them as very concerned ones whereas the fact remains that it’s just an eyewash.
Let us get rid of those alleged concerned ones and serve our mother tongue Dogri and our regional culture with all devotion in whatever way we may, because we don’t have to prove ourselves to others but to the soul within.
Rajeshwar Singh Raju
Rajeshwar Singh 'Raju' born in Jammu ( J&k) on July 5'1968 has been writing in Hindi, Dogri and English languages for the last 32 years. About 1000 articles , 100 short stories and 500 poems written by him have been published in different leading newspapers and magazines.
He has also written 15 theatre plays majority of which are in dogri which have been staged by prominent theatre groups.
About 35 plays and 05 serials written by him have been broadcast from Aakashwani Jammu and about 20 plays , 10 serials and more than 100 Documentaries telecast from DDK Jammu ,DDK Srinagar and DD Kashir. He has 19 books to his credit that include 07 in his mother tongue Dogri and 10 are in Hindi and 02 in English. Out of these 19 books 06 are on poetry and other 07 are on short stories and 06 are on Art and Culture.
He has been awarded prestigious Bal Sahitya Award-2022 by Sahitya Akademi New Delhi, J& K State Award for Literature-2023, Prof. Ram Nath Shastri Memorial Award and several other awards from time to time.
His majority of works are in his mother tongue Dogri and on Dogri language and cultural heritage. He is a strong voice for Dogri through his regular columns and other creative works through other electronic mediums of expression as a Dogri short story writer, playwright, Documentary writer art critic , a poet as well as a columnist. He is advisor Dogri with Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library , UT level Library committee and General Secretary Dogri Sanstha, a pioneer literary organization since 1944.
