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Mussoorie remembers Oz novelist John Lang on 181st death anniversary

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Municipal Council president Manmohan Singh Mall pays tributes to Australian novelist John Lang in Mussoorie on Thursday. A tribune photo
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Mussoorie, August 20

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Residents of Mussoorie remembered John Lang, a journalist, writer and barrister from Australia, who died in Mussoorie at an early age of 48, on his 181st death Anniversary today.

The residents offered floral tributes on a portrait of John Lang at the gates of a cemetery at Camels Back Road, where the author was buried in 1864.

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Senior journalist and social activist Jai Prakash Uttarakhandi offered floral tributes to John Lang. He said Mussoorie had a unique connection with the Australian novelist, who spent his last years here and was buried at Camels Back Road cemetery on August 20, 1864.

He further said Lang raised his voice against the injustice being meted out by the British upon Indians during the period. He stood up against the British rule in India, Jai Prakash said.

Lang was critical of the East India Company and wrote petitions for Rani Laxmi Bai during the first struggle for freedom. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also revived interest towards John Lang when he presented pictures and documents related to the author and his stay in India to the Australian Prime Minister during his visit there, he said. Jai Prakash demanded that a statue of the Australian novelist be installed in Mussoorie so that his 200th birth anniversary could be celebrated with fervour next year.

Manmohan Singh Mall, Municipal Council president, paid tributes to the author and said Lang was the humanist who supported Indians in their struggle for Independence through his writings.

He also commended the efforts of Jai Prakash Uttarakhandi of running a weekly newspaper with the same name “Maffasilite”, as run by Lang, in Hindi.

He also assured that a statue of John Lang would be installed in the town and asked Jai Prakash to identify a suitable place for it.

Jai Prakash said the statue should be build either at a place near the cemetery or on the roadside near Himalaya Club in Landour Bazaar.

Manoj Shastri, Arshad Ali, Avtaar Singh Kaintura and former ward member Kedar Singh Chauhan and others were present on the occasion.

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