Garhwali Mini short Stories by Abodh Bandhu Bahuguna

(Critical Review of Garhwali Short Story Collection ‘Katha Kumud’ created by Abodh Bandhu Bahuguna)

            Let Us Celebrate Hundredth Year of Modern Garhwali Fiction!

                             Bhishma Kukreti

[Notes on mini short stories; Garhwali mini short  stories; Uttarakhandi language mini short stories; Mid Himalayan language mini short stories; Himalayan language mini short stories; North Indian language mini short stories; Indian regional language mini short stories; South Asian regional language mini short stories; Asian regional language mini short stories]

  There are a couple of story writers who wrote mini short stories in Garhwali as Puran Panth ‘Pathik’ Parashar Gaur and Chinmay Sayar. However, Bahuguna leads the mini short story Garhwali literature.

  There are twelve mini short stories in ‘Katha Kumud’ collection. There are two types of mini short stories by Abodh Bandhu Bahguna

1-Literary mini short stories- Ghoos, Veer rasai Kavita, Bhato teend, Chhutkaro, Virana Babu, Kmai, Dainkan. Dr. Anil Dabral claims that Dainkan is one of the marvelous literary stories of modern Garhwali language. Most of the mini short literary stories are the depiction of daily life or there are real life in literary mini stories by Bahuguna

2-Inspirational –Apni Jyan, Jeewan Moha, Svad, Chhipade kudi

   Bahuguna depicts the distress of life of Garhwalis in used literary stories and there are spiritual or philosophical stories in inspirational mini short stories. There is influence of folk stories or Hitpadesh in his inspirational mini short stories.

Reference-

1-Abodh Bandhu Bahuguna, Gad Myateki Ganga (Part- Review of Garhwali mini short Story)

2-Dr Anil Dabral, 2007 Garhwali Gady Parampara (Part- Review of Garhwali mini short Story)

3-Bhagwati Prasad Nautiyal, articles on Durga Prasad Ghildiyal l in Chitthi Patri (Part- Review of Garhwali mini short Story)

4-Dr. Nand Kishor Dhoundiyal, Garhwal Ki Divangat Vibhutiyan (Part- Review of Garhwali mini short Story)

5-Notes of Prem Lal Bhatt on the Stories of Durga Prasad Ghildiyal (Part- Review of Garhwali short Story and mini short Story writers)

6- Gaytri Bwe, 1985 Gadh Bharati Sanstha, Delhi, (Garhwali short Story Collection)

7- Bhishma Kukreti, 2012 Garhwali Katha Sansar, Sankalp, Delhi (Historical review of Garhwali mini short Story Writers)

8- Bhishma Kukreti, 2012 Kathaon ki Katha, Worldwide mini short Story writers review Series in Shailvani weekly, Kotdwara, Garhwal

9- Stories of ‘Katha Kumud’, Garhwali Prakashan, janankpuri, Delhi (for mini short stories in Garhwali)

10-Mini short stories by Chinmay Sayar in Shailvani, Kotdwara

11-Mini short stories by Puran Pant Pathik 

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti, 22/8/2012 

Notes on mini short stories; Garhwali mini short  stories; Uttarakhandi language mini short stories; Mid Himalayan language mini short stories; Himalayan language mini short stories; North Indian language mini short stories; Indian regional language mini short stories; South Asian regional language mini short stories; Asian regional language mini short stories to be continued…. 

               Let Us Celebrate Hundredth Year of Modern Garhwali Fiction!