SUHAG KI SARI - PART 2

On 8th February, 1921 Gandhiji addressed a meeting in Gorakhpur as part of his Swadeshi movement beseeching citizens to reject their Govt jobs. Munshi Premchand was part of this meeting and fired by the zeal of the freedom struggle he made up his mind to renounce his Govt job of 22years. With a family of eight to feed and with prospects of no income in sight but nevertheless with the support of his wife, Premchandji abandoned his job as a teacher in Govt schools

The Britishers had ruined the Indian economy. All cotton produced in India was procured and sent to England. The Industrial revolution had sprouted many cloth mills in England which used this cheap cotton to produce cloth which was then used to flood the Indian market. As a result Indian weavers and craftsmen had lost their livelihood and the populace faced poverty and starvation. Gandhiji had started the Swadeshi movement to counter this exploitation insisting on the use of only Indian made goods and burning of all foreign made cloth. As a soldier of the freedom struggle Premchandji used his pen to support the movement.

Although made of mill cloth, the particular Sari was a most auspicious one for Gaura and a symbol of her prosperous marriage – how was it possible to commit it to flames – it would be most inauspicious inviting the wrath of the Gods. But her husband Ratan Singh was one of the leaders of the movement and could not be seen to be living a lie! Could Gaura reconcile herself to this gross inauspiciousness and would the burning of this single sari really help the national movement?

 

Design & Direction: PREETA MATHUR THAKUR
Editing:  AMAN GUPTA
Music : AMAN GUPTA & JYOTINDRA BHATT
Narrated by:    Ajay Chourey,  Meena Vaibhav, Preeta Mathur Thakur, and Aman Gupta 

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