"Ratneshwar , having 41 years of experience in theatres of Motihari, Patna, and Delhi produced a play called "Nilahi Kothi" in the Videsiya folk theatre style. The play was staged nationally and claimed many appreciations across the nation"  

Sagar Suraj

MOTIHARI: Prasad Ratneshwar - a renowned theatre personality and playwright from Bihar’s Motihari city, was awarded the ‘National Honor’ for Performing Arts on Wednesday.

 This award is supposed to be the highest honor bestowed by the state government on artists from Bihar and outside the state. Ratneshwar received a cash prize of one lakh rupees, a memento, certificate, and Angavastram as part of the Bihar Art Awards making waves in the various streams of lives in his home town Motihari.

Ratneshwar having 41 years of experience in theatres of Motihari, Patna, and Delhi produced a play called "Nilahi Kothi" in the Videsiya folk theatre style. The play was staged nationally and claimed many appreciations across the nation.

 ‘Nilahi Kothi’ underlines the dark sides of the British Empire and its persecution on the farmers of Champaran- the reason of “Champaran Satyagrah’ led by Mohan Das Kramchand Gandhi in 1917.

Ratneshar’s literary oddity was also similarly rich. His five books on poetry, ghazals, research thesis, research paper collections, and biographies were published that has been highly appreciably in the literature world. His thesis on ‘Tharu Tribe’ being presented as a new civilization in an event of China, created his international identity.

In Motihari- a bordering city, where Ratneshwar born and brought up enriched local theaters with stage and street plays and steered a number of unparalleled cultural and social events. His home town is celebrating this national award to an artist, poets, writer and playwrights. Creates new history for local theatre in ‘Champaran, where no local theatre artist had ever received such honor.

Ratneshwar, when asked, considered a tribute to thousands of theatre artists, who have contributed to the Motihari stage and expressed hope to revive the lost glories of Motihari’s rich theaters. The event is organized at Mourya Ashoka Hotel in Patna famous folk singer Bhrat Vyas also receives lifetime award along with Ratneshwar and others.

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Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha, the chief guest, inaugurated the event by lighting the lamp. Held under the chairmanship of Motilal Prasad, Minister of Arts, Culture, and Youth, the ceremony was attended by special guests, including Secretary of the Department Pranav Kumar, Joint Secretary and Director of Cultural Affairs Mrs. Ruby, and several other senior officials.