Law Kumar Mishra
Raipur/Patna, November 1
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi touched down in Chhattisgarh on Saturday morning and at the onset showed the gesture that touched everyone.
Soon after reaching the state capital, the Prime Minister dialled two prominent figures of the state who are recuperating. Modi spoke to the family of Chhattisgarh’s renowned artist Padma Vibhushan Teejan Bai and inquired about her health.
Teejan Bai is an exponent of Pandavani, a traditional performing art form, from Chhattisgarh, in which she enacts tales from the Mahabharata, with musical accompaniments. She is not keeping well and is under medical treatment at her native house.
The Prime Minister also called family members of Padma Bhushan Vinod Kumar Shukla, noted writer and checked on his health and well being.
Vinod Kumar Shukla is a modern Hindi writer known for his style that often borders on magic-realism. His works include the novels Naukar ki Kameez (which has been made into the film of the same name by Mani Kaul) and Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi (A Window lived in a Wall), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the best Hindi work in 1999.
This novel has been made into a stage play by theatre director Mohan Maharishi. He became the first Indian author to receive the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature in 2023.[3] In 2024, he became the first Chhattisgarhi[4] to receive the Jnanpith Award.
Following severe pulmonary issues, he has been hospitalized in a private hospital in the state capital.
