Review of Garhwali Satirical Prose – 8

Dyaradoon Puran: Satire on Dehradun as city

(Review of Satire prose by Bhishma Kukreti)

                           Bhishma Kukreti

[Notes on satire on cities; Garhwali satire on cities; Uttarakhandi regional language satire on cities; mid Himalayan regional language satire on cities; Himalayan regional language satire on cities; North Indian regional language satire on cities; Indian regional language satire on cities; south Asian regional language satire on cities; Asian regional language satire on cities]

    Kukreti published a satirical series on Dehradun city in Garh Aina (27^thApril 1^st May 1989). This author as student of ninth standard comes to Dehradun from a remote village of Garhwal. He finds human litter on the road and cries,” Kwi gan ai ge” (It seems a village started). The author compares the village where there is human litter at the entry of a village. His senior tells that it is not a village but a Muhalla of Dehradun city. By logic, finding human litter here and there, the author thinks that Dehradun is bunches of villages.

  The writer is not surprised for finding the class difference in Dehradun as he describes

गौं मा जु संस्कृत मा पूजा करूद  ओ  पंडित हूंद अर जु गढ़वाळी मा दिवता पुजदु  उ जागरीहोंद. त इख शाहरू मा जु अंग्रेजी मा गाळी द्याओ उ बडू साब .जु हिंदी मा अब्यूज करदो उ क्लर्कअर जु अपण ड्यारम  अपण नौनु तै गढ़वळि सिखांद वु चतुर्थ श्रेणी का कर्मचारी माने जांद.

  As in village people throw dust on the common place, people throw dust on the road or public places as

अब चूंकि अपुड़ सुर्युं खौड़ दुसरक चौक मा चुलाण मा कवी पाप नि होंद t  सर्वप्रथम हम अपणखौड़ दुसरक चौक ज़िना चुलान्दा, अर यदि पड़ोसी रागसी प्रवृति कु होऊ त  सार्वजनिक स्थलकूडादान का रूप मा प्रयोग होंद . चूंकि हरेक पडोसी रावण होंद ट गाँ मा सुबेर क गड्यु रंगुडसार्वजनिक स्थल याने बीच रस्ता मा चुलै दीन्दा . आम रस्ता मा पंचायती चौक द्रौपदी च ,हरेक पांडव कि भोग्या....  About transferring a strict district magistrate as if he has done a crime, Kukreti explains that it is the democracy which is more important than health of the people. The satirist compares Parushram and Lakshman of Ramayan era as the municipal corporate of opposite parties

मी तै इन लगणु च रामयण काल मा इ प्रजातंत्र का बीज बोये गे होला. श्री लक्ष्मण बि नगरसेवक का चुनाव जीति होला अर परुशराम जी अपोजिसन का रै होला तबि त ऊन ब्वाल

सेवक जो करे सेवकाई , अरि करन करे जो लराई

  This way, Kukreti attacks humorously on the culture of Dehradun and ridicules those minus points .

References-

1-Abodh Bandhu Bahuguna, Kaunli Kiran

2-Dr Anil Dabral, 2007, Garhwali Gady Parampara 

3- Dhad, Garh Aina, Paraj publications.

Copyright @ Bhishma Kukreti, 8/8/2012

Notes on satire on cities; Garhwali satire on cities; Uttarakhandi regional language satire on cities; mid Himalayan regional language satire on cities; Himalayan regional language satire on cities; North Indian regional language satire on cities; Indian regional language satire on cities; south Asian regional language satire on cities; Asian regional language satire on cities