Uma Bhatt : Expert of Creating Images of Rural Garhwali Females

Critical History of Garhwali literature
History of Himalayan Literature
History of Indian Literature
Uma Bhatt : Expert of Creating Images of Rural Garhwali Females
Bhishma Kukreti
After initiation of Uttarakhand movement, many female poets came in Garhwali poetic field. Uma Bhatt is one of the such female poets who impressed the intellectual thinkers by her portraying a common Garhwali village, the social, religious and spiritual culture of Kedar valley and Nagpur area of upper Garhwal. Uma Bhatt has a specialty as Beena Benjwal that she uses the dialects of upper Garhwal in her literature and this makes her different than others.
Uma Bhatt was born in village, Andrvadi, Guptkashi , Rudraprayag Garhwal as Saklani girl.
After passing Shashtri and M A degree, she joined education department and she teaches in a school. She is also editor of two magazines and writes Hindi poetry in Hindi language.
Recently, she published her poetry collection Dwi Akhar a Garhwali language. Learned critics and writers as Dr Data Ram Purohit, Shri Dhar Khali, Om Prakash Semwal and Prem Singh Gusain appreciated her efforts. Dr Purohit remarks that she is the expert of creating real images of a Garhwali women engaged in her struggle for benefiting her family and the society. Uma Bhatt uses symbols of rural Garhwal and those were not used in Garhwali poets before Uma could do so. The experts of folk literature of upper Garhwal Dr Purohit further elaborates that she is remarkable in using proverbs and figures of speech effectively to describe her subject in poetic form.
Her poetries are published in many newsletters, magazines and Akashvani relayed her many Garhwali poetries.

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