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Prabhat Singh Modbhai Barhat Suresh Raghavan
Friends, while referring to painting. You know, painting is a
these paintings being made in work related to art and canvas,
Ujjain, I am reminded of another but Raghavan ji decided
unique painting. This painting that he would preserve the
had been made by Prabhat information about plants and
Singh Modbhai Barhat, an artist animals through his paintings.
from Rajkot. This painting was He documents the information
based on an incident in the related to them by making
life of Chhatrapati Veer Shivaji paintings of varied flora and
Maharaj. Artist Prabhat Bhai fauna. Till now, he has made
had depicted that Chhatrapati paintings of dozens of such
Shivaji Maharaj was going to birds, animals, orchids, that
visit his Kuldevi 'Tulja Mata' after are on the verge of extinction.
the coronation, and what the This example of serving nature
atmosphere there at that time through art is really amazing.
was. To keep our traditions, our
heritage alive, we have to save My dear countrymen,
it, live it, teach it to the next today I want to tell you one
generation. I am happy that, more interesting thing. A few
today, many efforts are being days ago, an awesome craze
made in this direction. appeared on social media.
America has returned to us
My dear countrymen, many more than a hundred rare and
a time, when we hear words like ancient artefacts. After this
ecology, flora, fauna, biodiversity, news came to the fore, there
some people think that these are was a lot of discussion on social
specialised subjects; subjects media about these artefacts.
related to experts. But it is not The youth displayed a sense
so. If we really love nature, we of pride in their heritage. These
can do a lot even with our small artefacts returned to India are
efforts. Suresh Raghavan ji is a 2500 to 250 years-old. You will
friend from Vadavalli in Tamil also be happy to know that
Nadu. Raghavan ji is fond of these rare items are related to
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