Under the Bhojpuri Ekta Manch (BEM), Bhopal, a book ‘Jag Ho Balmua’ was released on Sunday at Hindi Bhavan. The chief guest of the programme was Surendranath Singh. The programme was presided over by Vijay Bahadur Singh and managed by Asha Sinha Kapoor.
The chief guest and other guests present felicitated the publisher of the book Vaibhav Bhatele, Senior Social worker TR Mishra, Ram Avtar Upadhyay, DN Singh and JEE Advance All India Rank 82 was felicitated.
On this occasion the president of BEM Kuwar Prasad said that after Hindi, Bhojpuri is the most popular language in India and as many as 20 crore people speak Bhojpuri.
Surendranath Singh said that the use of mother tongue is getting reduced day by day. He further said that the society that forgets its own mother tongue will be forgotten by the society itself. He further appealed to all those present to keep the colloquial languages alive through its regular usage.
While reviewing the book, Anand Singh shed light on the usage of words in the book and he explained that Bhojpuri is moving from being a dialect to a language as in this language, Nagri manuscripts was used. Mahesh Prasad Singh said that the history of Bhojpuri starts from seventh century and it is used in Kabirdas’ poems and Gorekhnath’s Gorakbani.
On this occasion the poet read few lines from his book ‘Jag Ho Balmua’ and was much appreciated by the crowd.