Jaura’s play ‘Saudagar’ set to give a tough fight to drugs
Tribune News Service
Doraha/Ludhiana, April 28
Nirmal Jaura's play 'Saudagar' is all set to give a tough fight to drugs, which is eating into the very vitals of Punjabi youth and draining them of their minds and bodies.
The Punjab Cultural Society will be staging the play at the Guru Nanak Dev Bhawan on April 30 on the 81st birth anniversary of Jasdev Singh Jassowal. Society president Ravinder Ranguwal said the play has been written by Nirmal Jaura and directed by Kirti Kirpal. "It depicts the picture of the state affected with drugs," Ranguwal said.
Dr Nirmal Jaura, Director, Youth Welfare Department, Panjab University, feels: "The modern day youth has been led astray. They are too busy in their virtual world which has distanced them from the original and thrown them into the marsh of drugs. Relationships, moral values and social ties have been deformed. It is very essential to pull them out of this make-belief world and show them what we as Punjabis originally stand for."
"My purpose of writing this play is to make the young led-astray, feel the guilt of having committed a grave blunder by indulging in such a deadly game," the writer said.
Jaura, a doctorate in Punjabi literature and culture, has hitherto written 10 books on science, literature and culture, enacted and directed many plays and hosted a number of cultural exchange programmes. Earlier, Jaura's lyrical play 'Main Punjab Bolda Han', tracing the history of Punjab, its trials and tribulations to gain its present status and its efforts for diversification to unite the world into a global village, too, had proved to be a befitting contribution.
Vice-President of the society Lucky Grewal and Kamal Bhangoo said Dr Sukhpal Singh economist from Punjab Agricultural University would be honoured with Dr Mohinder Singh Randhawa Yadgiri Award and Dr Baldev Singh Aulakh, expert in organ transplant would be bestowed with Bhai Ghanaiya Ji Award.
