MF AHMAD
Daltonganj, Nov 26: A three-day photo exhibition to mark the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav @75 under the aegis of the ministry of information and broadcasting in the old town hall building ended on a note to respect and abide by the Constitution of India.
Palamu DC Anjaneyulu Dodde was the chief guest while a senior newsman Prabhat Suman who works in a popular Hindi daily in Noida was the major local attraction along with the two renowned short film maker and singer Sri Ram Dalton and Megha Dalton. Gaurav Pushkar was the motivating force behind this three-day photo exhibition.
As the audience was mostly school children, the DC in his speech said, “Today, school children are taking to narcotics. This is harmful. Avoid it.”
He reminded boys and girls that it is the Constitution of India which has granted them a lot of freedom as there are countries where the display of freedom is curbed.
He said this generation must know the supreme contribution of their forefathers in bringing this freedom to the countrymen.
“There is so much of the ‘positivity’ in Palamu as today only I came to know about a few luminaries of Palamu who were a part of the draft committee for the Constitution,” added Dodde.
He began his speech by referring to the grandson of the illustrious freedom fighter and one of the members of the draft committee of the Constitution Yaduvansh Sahay.
DC urged the children to take a leaf off the life of such a great soul of Palamu.
He conceded before taking over here as DC, he was made to know Palamu as of ‘drought, rowdies, goonda and naxal’ dominated district but here the history of Palamu is enough to fill anyone with pride.
Sri Ram Dalton told the children that he was the one who gave Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui a chance to work in his film during the actor’s earlier days who later went on to become one of the renowned actors of Bollywood after Gangs of Wasseypur.
The children applauded Megha Dalton’s signing as she sang few lines of tribal dialect and some of Nagpuri dialect.
The Noida-based journalist Prabhat Suman who has his roots in Daltonganj where his father taught English literature for more than three decades, was credited for bringing the forgotten heroes of Palamu in this photo exhibition.
Suman exhorted DC to think of rechristening the name of the mohalla etc on the names of the glorious personalities of the past of Palamu as a token of gratitude to which Dodde said “The administration has taken note of this exhortation of Suman.”
